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Lyrics and compositions © their respective songwriters and publishers.","tab_id":62458,"song":"Rotting On Remand","artist":"Billy Bragg","content_type":"chord","tab_type":"Chords","url":"https://www.free-chords.com/song/11542111-rotting-on-remand-chords-by-billy-bragg/","api_url":"https://www.free-chords.com/api/v1/songs/62458?type=chord","rating":4.48237,"votes":14,"content":"#----------------------------------PLEASE NOTE---------------------------------#\r\n#------------------------------------------------------------------------------##\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch]\r\nI stood before the judge that day[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]F[/ch]             [ch]C[/ch]\r\nAs he refused my bail[/tab]\r\n[tab]                   [ch]G[/ch]\r\nAwaiting trial in jail[/tab]\r\n[tab]   [ch]C[/ch]\r\nI said there is no justice[/tab]\r\n[tab]         [ch]F[/ch]                 [ch]C[/ch]\r\nAs they led me out of the door[/tab]\r\n[tab]          [ch]F[/ch]                                  [ch]C[/ch]\r\nAnd the judge said, \"This isn't a court of justice son[/tab]\r\n[tab]      [ch]G[/ch]              [ch]C[/ch]\r\nThis is a court of law\".[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch]\r\nThey first sent me to Windsor[/tab]\r\n[tab]     [ch]F[/ch]                 [ch]C[/ch]\r\nAnd then to Stoke on Trent[/tab]\r\n[tab]                         [ch]G[/ch]\r\nThree days and nights I spent[/tab]\r\n[tab]     [ch]C[/ch]\r\nMy solicitor can't find me[/tab]\r\n[tab]         [ch]F[/ch]           [ch]C[/ch]\r\nAnd my family don't know[/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]F[/ch]                        [ch]C[/ch]\r\nI keep telling them that I'm innocent[/tab]\r\n[tab]                      [ch]G[/ch]              [ch]C[/ch]      [ch]C7[/ch]\r\nThey just say, \"Come on son, in you go.\"[/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]F[/ch]                          [ch]C[/ch]\r\nI was picked up on suspicion of something I haven't done[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch]    [ch]B/C[/ch]    [ch]A/C[/ch]   [ch]G/C[/ch]                            [ch]G[/ch]\r\nHere I sit in 'F' wing waiting for my trial to come[/tab]\r\n[tab]           [ch]F[/ch]                            [ch]C[/ch]        [ch]F[/ch]\r\nIt's a cruel unusual punishment that society demands[/tab]\r\n[tab]                        [ch]C[/ch]      [ch]G[/ch]           [ch]C[/ch]\r\nInnocent till proven guilty, rotting on remand[/tab]\r\n[ch]F[/ch]  [ch]C[/ch]  [ch]G[/ch]  [ch]C[/ch]  [ch]A7[/ch]\r\n[tab]    [ch]D[/ch]\r\nI ended up in this jail[/tab]\r\n[tab]          [ch]G[/ch]    [ch]D[/ch]\r\nBuilt in 18-82[/tab]\r\n[tab]                  [ch]A[/ch]\r\nWas a Victorian value[/tab]\r\n[tab]      [ch]D[/ch]\r\nNow three of us are squeezed in here[/tab]\r\n[tab]          [ch]G[/ch]               [ch]D[/ch]\r\nAnd you can't escape the smell[/tab]\r\n[tab]           [ch]G[/ch]            [ch]D[/ch]\r\nOf that bucket in the corner[/tab]\r\n[tab]       [ch]A[/ch]                [ch]D[/ch]\r\nAnd we eat in here as well[/tab]\r\n[tab]     [ch]G[/ch]               [ch]D[/ch]\r\nTo slop that bucket out[/tab]\r\n[tab]                          [ch]A[/ch]\r\nAnd if I'm lucky, get a shower[/tab]\r\n[tab]  [ch]D[/ch]\r\nApart from one hours exercise[/tab]\r\n[tab]       [ch]G[/ch]                 [ch]D[/ch]\r\nI'm locked in here all day[/tab]\r\n[tab]            [ch]G[/ch]                   [ch]D[/ch]\r\nYou don't turn criminals into citizens[/tab]\r\n[tab]       [ch]A[/ch]               [ch]D[/ch]    [ch]D7[/ch]\r\nBy treating them this way[/tab]\r\n[tab]          [ch]G[/ch]                          [ch]D[/ch]\r\nIs the prize of law and order the stench of Wormwood Scrubs[/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]D[/ch]   [ch]C#[/ch]/[ch]D[/ch]    [ch]B[/ch]/[ch]D[/ch]    [ch]A/D[/ch]                       [ch]A[/ch]\r\nWith judges quick to sentence sending more down from above[/tab]\r\n[tab]       [ch]G[/ch]                                [ch]D[/ch]         [ch]G[/ch]\r\nIt's a cruel unusual punishment that society demands[/tab]\r\n[tab]                        [ch]D[/ch]      [ch]A[/ch]          [ch]D[/ch]\r\nInnocent till proven guilty, rotting on remand    G  D  A  D ...[/tab]\r\n[tab]----------------------------------------------------------------------------\r\nFrancois Rousseau\r\nLaboratoire Incognito (Computer Languages)\r\nUniversite de Montreal, Canada\r\nE-mail: rousseaf@iro.umontreal.ca\r\n----------------------------------------------------------------------------[/tab]","plain_text":"#----------------------------------PLEASE NOTE---------------------------------#\n#------------------------------------------------------------------------------##\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nF  C  G  C  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