Merle Haggard - I'll Break Out Again Tonight lyrics

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(Arthur Leo Owens - Sanger D. Shafer)

Slowly the long day turns to night

And soon they'll turn out the prison lights

But in my cell I'm making plans

To be with you at home again.

These walls and bars can't hold a dreamin' man

So I'll be home to tuck the babies in

They can chain my body but not my mind

And I'll break out again tonight.

--- Instrumental ---

The warden thinks I'm in for life

'Cause all he's ever seen me wear is stripes

He don't know bout my blue suit and my tie

That I wear when I'm with you each night.

These walls and bars can't hold a dreamin' man

So I'll be home to tuck the babies in

They can chain my body but not my mind

And I'll break out again tonight.

And I'll break out again tonight...