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21 Miles To Lake Charles Prison Song Lyrics and Chords by Johnny Paycheck
21 Miles To Lake Charles Prison
Recorded by Johnny Paycheck
Written by Aubrey Mayhew
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Oh momma I'
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m so thankful yo
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It's late and I hate about thi
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know it's hard on you bu
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t I don't know what
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I'd
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t here momma t
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o walk me to th
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Lake Charles
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A few more hours my life will cease to
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t mind that last mile I€
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™ll walk it with a smile
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long as your sweet face is the
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last thing
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that I
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see
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turn back the pages of
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time
And rewrite those few minutes I went in
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I took her for my wife
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and was forced to take her
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life
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chains I ride the
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I'm richer by far than all o
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f them together are
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because momma you
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walked me to the
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FAQ
Who sang the the song 21 Miles To Lake Charles Prison?
- The song 21 Miles To Lake Charles Prison was sang by Johnny Paycheck.
Who is Johnny Paycheck?
- Johnny Paycheck (born Donald Eugene Lytle May 31, 1938 - February 19, 2003) was an American country music singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and Grand Ole Opry member notable for recording the David Allan Coe song "Take This Job and Shove It". He achieved his greatest success in the 1970s as a force in country music's "outlaw movement" popularized by artists Hank Williams Jr., Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson, Billy Joe Shaver, and Merle Haggard. In the 1980s, his music career slowed due to drug, alcohol and legal problems. He served a prison sentence in the early 1990s and his declining health effectively ended his career in early 2000. In 1980, Paycheck appeared on the PBS music program Austin City Limits (season 5).
