Walls Of A Prison Lyrics - Marty Stuart

I walked through the big yard, to feel the warm sunshine 

A ninety-nine year man, stepped over to me 

He offered a smoke, and said as I rolled it 

"Tomorrow I'm goin', to break out and go free" 

"They feed us by sunlight, they watch us by spotlight 

But I know a way that a man can go free 

Down under my cell, I'm diggin' a tunnel 

The walls of a prison can never hold me" 

I told him that, I'd have no part of his scheming 

My time would be up, one year from today 

His eyes blazed with fire, and he looked right through me 

Bitter, but broken, again he did say 

"They feed us by sunlight, they watch us by spotlight 

But I know a way that a man can go free 

Down under my cell, I'm diggin' a tunnel 

The walls of a prison can never hold me" 

Next morning at breakfast, the old man was missing 

Then we all heard the rifles high up on the wall 

He'd gone through the tunnel, just like he had promised 

And they said he was crying, when they saw him fall 

They feed us by sunlight, they watch us by spotlight 

But I know a way that a man can go free 

Down under my cell, I'm diggin' a tunnel 

The walls of a prison can never hold me