Malabar Mansion

	  		
Intro  G 

Verse 1:
           G                                C                     G 
I was in a sad and sorry state the day they brought me through that gate, 
  G                                      D 
I felt just like a bird in the great big cage. 
          C                          G 
Then they put me in a wing where the lifer's think they're king, 
          D7                                G 
if you're weak you'll never live to see old age. 


         C                                    G 
Long Bay Gaol, you're cruel and bad, you have made sane men go mad, 
          A7                                 D 
some have even took their lives at different times. 
        C                                  G 
But you won't do that to me, I'll still be sane when they set me free 
      D7                             G 
and I pray to God to help me keep my mind
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Verse 1:
               G                                    C              G 
As crews slams doors in all the slots, he slips the bolts, snaps the locks, 
     G                                D 
some crims keeps yelling out abuse at him. 
            C                             G 
Then it was lonesome time again, I had no books, I had no pen, 
        D7                             G 
waiting 16 hours to hear that big bell ring. 

 
         C                                    G 
Long Bay Gaol, you're cruel and bad, you have made sane men go mad, 
          A7                                 D 
some have even took their lives at different times. 
        C                                  G 
But you won't do that to me, I'll still be sane when they set me free 
      D7                             G 
and I pray to God to help me keep my mind. 



G                                         C              G 
  I pace up and down my cell, I feel I've died and this is hell, 
G                                D 
  to stop me going mad I lay and think 
      C                       G 
of my family in the scrub, my pals down at the pub 
           D7                             G 
and what's happening up at Saga's where I drink. 
     G                             C           G 
My release ain't far away, I won't worry on that day 
 G                                    D 
about your canes and rules you put on me. 
           C                               G 
Won't hear door slams in the slot, sliding bolts, snapping locks, 
       D7                           G 
I have paid my debt again I will be free. 


    
     C                                    G 
Long Bay Gaol, you're cruel and bad, you have made sane men go mad, 
          A7                                 D 
some have even took their lives at different times. 
        C                                  G 
But you won't do that to me, I'll still be sane when they set me free 
      D7                             G 
and I pray to God to help me keep my mind. 
       D7                             C        C   G 
Yes, I pray to God to help me keep my mind.