I’ll Break Out Again Tonight

Darrell McCall

Written by Arthur Leo Owens & Sanger D. Shafer

Key of C · Chords: I IV V

Verse 1

       C
Slowly the long day turns to night
     C                      G
Soon they’ll switch off the prison lights
    G
And in my cell I’m making plans
   G               C
To be at home with you again

Chorus

      C                         G
These walls and bars can’t hold a dreaming man
   G                    F   C
So I’ll be home to tuck the babies in
     C                         G
They can chain my body but not my mind
   G                    C
So I’ll break out again tonight

Verse 2

    C
The warden thinks I’m in for life
    C                         G
All he’s ever seen me wear is stripes
   G
He don’t know about my blue suit and my tie
     G                        C
That I wear when I’m with you at night