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SONG: Time Off For Good Behaviour (*Neil Young)
BAND: Ross Guertin
ALBUM: In Time...
TABBED BY: Ross Guertin (ross_guertin@yahoo.ca)
TUNING: EADGBe
INTRO/G* RIFF
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VERSE 1:
G
My brother went to prison
D G*
He's in Kingston doin' time
G
He got seven years for sellin'
C G*
What I've been smokin' all my life
G
Time off for good behavior
D C Em
But the boy don't feel too good
C
Locked behind those steel bars
D
I don't know if he should
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G
Yeah a few years ago they called me
D G
Back home to get a big award
G
They also called my brother
C G*
But they made him say My Lord
G
They locked me up in a Hall of Fame
D C Em
And threw away the keys
C
But when they put my brother away
D
It really did somethin' to me
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CHORUS:
D
Now I'm guilty as hell for sayin'
C G
Boy you better go back home
D
You know you'll get a fair shake there
C G
We're running all alone
Em G
When he called me up from the border
D C Em
With the Mounties on his tail
C
I said go back to Canada
D
We can raise the bail
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G
Now I get these letters
D G
From a cell with no TV
G
He says he's outside one hour
C G
And inside twenty three
G
Time off for good behavior
D C Em
But the boy don't feel too good
C
Locked behind those steel bars
D
I don't know if he should
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CHORUS:
G
My brother went to prison
D G*
He's in Kingston doin' time
G
He got seven years for sellin'
C G
What I've been smokin' all my life
