Billy Bragg

Billy Bragg - Rotting On Remand guitar tab

>From rousseaf@nil.IRO.UMontreal.CA (Francois Rousseau)

Subject: AOTW: Billy Bragg: Rotting On remand

Date: Thu, 15 Apr 1993 05:51:51 GMT

Rotting On Remand

(Billy Bragg)

C

I stood before the judge that day

F C

As he refused my bail

And I knew that I would spend my time

G

Awaiting trial in jail

C

I said there is no justice

F C

As they led me out of the door

F C

And the judge said, "This isn't a court of justice son

G C

This is a court of law".

C

They first sent me to Windsor

F C

And then to Stoke on Trent

In a holding cell in Liverpool

G

Three days and nights I spent

C

My solicitor can't find me

F C

And my family don't know

F C

I keep telling them that I'm innocent

G C C7

They just say, "Come on son, in you go."

F C

I was picked up on suspicion of something I haven't done

C B/C A/C G/C G

Here I sit in 'F' wing waiting for my trial to come

F C F

It's a cruel unusual punishment that society demands

C G C

Innocent till proven guilty, rotting on remand

F C G C A7

D

I ended up in this jail

G D

Built in 18-82

When one man to one prison cell

A

Was a Victorian value

D

Now three of us are squeezed in here

G D

And you can't escape the smell

G D

Of that bucket in the corner

A D

And we eat in here as well

They let me out of this cage

G D

To slop that bucket out

To get my food and bring it back

A

And if I'm lucky, get a shower

D

Apart from one hours exercise

G D

I'm locked in here all day

G D

You don't turn criminals into citizens

A D D7

By treating them this way

G D

Is the prize of law and order the stench of Wormwood Scrubs

D C#/D B/D A/D A

With judges quick to sentence sending more down from above

G D g

It's a cruel unusual punishment that society demands

D A D

Innocent till proven guilty, rotting on remand G D A D ...

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Francois Rousseau

Laboratoire Incognito (Computer Languages)

Universite de Montreal, Canada

E-mail: rousseaf@iro.umontreal.ca

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