Prison Guitar Tabs by Melissa Etheridge

The Prison
By Melissa Etheridge
From the Album "Skin"

Throughout this song,
you won't take your pinky off the third fret of  the high-E string.
The chord names I put above the tablature are the names of the chords
if the pinky was not on the third fret of the high E-string.

      Am              Am           Am            Am
------3--------------3-------------3-------------3-------|
--------1---1----------1---1---------1---1---------1---1-|
----2-----2-------2------2------2------2------2------2---|
---------------------------------------------------------|
-0-------------0-------------0-------------0-------------|
---------------------------------------------------------|


      Fmaj7         Fmaj7          Fmaj7          Fmaj7
-------3--------------3--------------3--------------3-----|
---------1---1----------1---1----------1---1--------------|
-----2-----2--------2-----2-------2------2-------2--------|
-3--------------3-------------3--------------3------------|
----------------------------------------------------------|
----------------------------------------------------------|
                                                      I was

     C              C              C              C
--------3--------------3--------------3-------------3--------3-|
----------1---1----------1---1----------1---1------------------|
-----2------2-------2------2-------2------2-------2-------2----|
---------------------------------------------------------------|
-3--------------3--------------3--------------3-------2--------|
---------------------------------------------------------------|
 high and dry           like a Kansas sky                 If I


   Am             Am           Am             Am
------3--------------3-------------3-------------3---------3-|
--------1---1----------1---1---------1---1-------------------|
----2-----2-------2------2------2------2------2---------2----|
-------------------------------------------------------------|
-0-------------0-------------0-------------0-----------------|
-----------------------------------------------------3-------|
 ached for any more        I knew I'd surely die


  Fmaj7          Fmaj7          Fmaj7          Fjam7
-------3--------------3--------------3--------------3-------|
---------1---1----------1---1----------1---1----------1---1-|
-----2-----2--------2-----2-------2------2-------2------2---|
-3--------------3-------------3--------------3--------------|
------------------------------------------------------------|
------------------------------------------------------------|
 Night after night  trying to get out of my skin


     C                            Am
--------3--------------3--------------3--------------3-------|
----------1---1----------1---1----------1---1----------1---1-|
-----2------2-------2------2-------2------2--------2-----2---|
-------------------------------------------------------------|
-3--------------2--------------0---------------0-------------|
-------------------------------------------------------------|
 Day  after    lone  ly        day,      you'd send me back

   G
------3--|
---------|
---0-----|
---------|
---------|
-3-------|
again


C                        Fmaj7
I have stood inside this prison

C                        Fmaj7
I have touched its stony walls

C                        Am
I know before you try to run

Am                   G
You gotta learn to crawl

C                         Fmaj7
I tried to leave it all behind me

C                                   Fmaj7
I drove all night, just to drive all day

C                                      Am
But the walls of this prison still surround me

  Fmaj7 G              Am
And I     can't break away

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