Ninety-Nine Years (and One Dark Day)

Written by Jesse Fuller

Key of G · Chords: I IV V

# Tabbed By: Denny
# Reviewed by: Cade

Verse

                  G                      D
I’ve been in this prison twenty years or more,
                       G
I shot my woman with a 44.
                                 C
I’ll be right here till my dyin’ day
                  G    D             G
I got ninety-nine years and one dark day.

Instrumental breaks between verses

Verse

Well the food is bad and the beds are hard
I spend all day breakin’ rocks in the yard.
Well there ain’t no change, gonna stay that way
I got ninety-nine years and one dark day.

Verse

Ain’t no singer that can sing a song,
convince that warden that I ain’t wrong.
His minds made up, gonna stay that way
I got ninety-nine years and one dark day.

Verse

I never learned to read, I never learned to write,
my whole life’s been one big fight.
I never heard about the righteous way,
I got ninety-nine years and one dark day.

Verse

I remember a time, many years ago,
I shot my woman with a 44.
I’ll be right here till my dyin’ day
I got ninety-nine years and one dark day.

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