I Made The Prison Band Song Lyrics and Chords by Merle Haggard
I Made The Prison Band
Recorded by Merle Haggard
Written by Tommy Collins, Jimmy Bryant, Ernest Ball
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Deep inside this lonely prison
Where the
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pleasures are so few
Where the walls are strong
And the days are long and there's
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nothin'
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I learned to play the guitar
Now I'm a doin' the best I
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can
I guess I could be
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worse
Because I made the
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prison
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band
I made the
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prison
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band
Now there's ole
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bashful Bill on the doghouse bass
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Willie on the steel
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guitar
He hails from Pocatello
Where he dragged a pretty mean
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bar
And
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back on the drum there's two-time Tom
Our in-shot tempo
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man
The boys call me their
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singin'
MC
Since I made the
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prison
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I made the
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prison
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I've been plannin' a break since Christmas
I had the
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details all worked out
But now I know that I ain't a gonna go
And there's no
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doubt
I had my try-out Sunday
And the outcome changed my
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plans
I gotta rehearse for the
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Friday night show
Cause I made the
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prison
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I made the
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FAQ
Who sang the the song I Made The Prison Band?
- The song I Made The Prison Band was sang by Merle Haggard.
Who is Merle Haggard?
- Merle Ronald Haggard (April 6, 1937 - April 6, 2016) was an American country singer, songwriter, guitarist, and fiddler.
Haggard was born in Oildale, California, during the Great Depression. His childhood was troubled after the death of his father, and he was incarcerated several times in his youth. After being released from San Quentin State Prison in 1960, he managed to turn his life around and launch a successful country music career. He gained popularity with his songs about the working class that occasionally contained themes contrary to anti-Vietnam War sentiment of some popular music of the time. Between the 1960s and the 1980s, he had 38 number-one hits on the US country charts, several of which also made the Billboard all-genre singles chart. Haggard continued to release successful albums into the 2000s.
He received many honors and awards for his music, including a Kennedy Center Honor (2010), a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award (2006), a BMI Icon Award (2006), and induction into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame (1977), Country Music Hall of Fame (1994) and Oklahoma Music Hall of Fame (1997). He died on April 6, 2016—his 79th birthday—at his ranch in Shasta County, California, having recently suffered from double pneumonia.
