Ninety-Nine Years

G D G C G D G G D I've been in this prison, twenty years or more G I shot my woman with a forty-four C I'll be right here til my dying day G D G I got ninety-nine years and one dark day G D Well the food is bad and the beds are hard G I spend all day breaking rocks in the yard C Well there ain't no change, gonna stay that way G D G I got ninety-nine years and one dark day G D Aint no singer that can sing a song G Convince this warden I ain't wrong C His minds made up , it's gonna stay that way G D G I got ninety-nine years and one dark day G D I never learned to read, never learned to write G My whole lifes been one big fight C I never heard about the righteous way G D G I got ninety-nine years and one dark day G D I commited a crime twenty years ago G I shot my woman with a forty-four C I'll be right here till my dying day G D G I got ninety-nine years and one dark day