You Can Take Your Nine Pound Hammer

There’s a cabin in the mountains oh so many miles from here

They sit there waitin’ for me my old Dad and mother dear

They don’t know I’m here in prison livin’ in a six foot square

Wore these shoes of mine out walkin’ but ain’t gettin’ anywhere

Chorus

Take away these iron bars and take back your suit of grey

I won’t need your nine pound hammer if I ever get away

At nine o’clock the lights go out and then there’s not a sound

Except old Mike the prison guard as he makes his rounds

But someday things will be different and I pray it won’t be long

They’ll look into an empty cell and find that I am gone

Chorus

Take away these iron bars and take back your suit of grey

I won’t need your nine pound hammer If I ever get away

If you’re ever down in everyville and you want to call on me

It’s the big house on the corner my number’s 283

Lord I’ve got seven years to stay here then brother I’ll be gone

I’ll be going back to mom and dad and that little mountain home

Chorus

Take away these iron bars and take back your suit of grey

I won’t need your nine pound hammer If I ever get away