Capo 1st fret

Intro:

||:   A     |     E     |     A     |     A    :||

        A                               E                 A

San Quentin, you've been livin' hell to me.

                                          D                    A

You've galled at me since nineteen-sixty-three.

        D                                                            A

I've seen 'em come and go and I've seen 'em die.

                          E                    A

And long ago I stopped askin' why.

        A                     E                  A

San Quentin, I hate ev'ry inch of you.

                                           D                                   A

You've cut me and you've scarred me through and through.

        D                                           A

And I'll walk out a wiser, weaker man.

                                          E                       A

Mister congressman, why can't you under-stand?

Guitar solo:

||:   A     |     E     |     A     |     A    :||

|     D     |     D    |     A     |     A     |

|     A     |     E     |     A     |     A     |

        A                             E                          A

San Quentin, what good do you think you do?

                                       D                                A

Do you think that I'll be different when you're through?

        D                                                                  A

You bend my heart and mind, and you warp my soul.

                                         E                  A

Your stone walls turn my blood a little cold.

       A                           E                     A

San Quentin, may you rot and burn in hell.

                                        D                  A

May your walls fall, and may I live to tell.

         D                                          A

May all the world forget you ever stood.

                                               E                      A

And the whole world will re-gret you did no good.

                                          E                 A

San Quentin, you've been livin' hell to me.