Let you be free now

作词 : PotherB

作曲 : PotherB

编曲 : PotherB

I was told by the jailer I'd never see the light!

No more golden sunsets or a dawn to break the night!

"We'll put you deep below, where no one else will go,"

or so he said to me, or so he said to meee.

Oh! A night so long it'd break my mind,

A cold so deep that my feet I couldn't find,

"We'll tell not a one, that you have truly gone!"

or so he said to me, or so he said to meee.

One night or day I didn't know, I sidled up to the bars,

"Oh, please, oh, please" I asked, "I might as well be on Mars."

"Good golly me, I think we threw away the key!"

or so he said to me, or so he said to meee.

A year went by, or four, I couldn't truly tell.

I banged on the door, for I could barely yell.

"Oh holler all you like, for you are all alike."

or so he said to me, or so he said to meee.

By my wits end, I asked to send a letter to my love,

I scratched away, for these words I did her owe,

"For how I love you so, but you got to let me go!"

or so I said to her, or so I said to heeer.

When The jailer came-a-knockin' to see his prisoner,

I chuckled with my weak breath, I had no more fear.

"Why do your words; like a summer morn' they sing like birds."

or so he said to me, or so he said to meee.

When my body grew oh so stiff and cold,

It was the jailer come for me,

He placed my sack six feet under out back,

He made there a flowerbed...

“I’d liked to have set you free, yeah, I’d liked to have set you freee.”