Jailbreak

Words & Music:

Phillip Parris Lynott (Thin Lizzy)

 

There is a full multi-guitar transcription of this song in Guitar World and also in the July/August 2009 issue of Guitar Edge.

 

E5    A5   E5   F#5   E5   F#5   A5   E5   F#5   E5

 

F#5     A5      E5    F#5            E5   F#5   A5   E5   F#5         E5     F#5

Tonight there's gonna be a jailbreak----------------------somewhere in this town.

See, me and the boys, we don't like it; so, we're getting up and going down.

 

Hiding low, looking right to left.  If you see us coming, I think it's best

A5     E5         F#5               E5   F#5  A5       E5    F#5

To move away.  Do you hear what I say----from under my breath?

 

CHORUS:

B5                         E5       B5                 E5

Tonight, there's gonna be a jailbreak somewhere in the town.

B5                         E5              [n.c.]          F5

Tonight, there's gonna be a jailbreak; so, don't you be around.

 

A5   E5   F#5                E5   F#5  A5  E5  F#5  E5  F#5

               Don't you be around.

 

Tonight there's gonna be trouble.  Some of us won't survive.

See, the boys and me mean business.  Bustin' out, dead or alive

 

I can hear the hound dogs on my trail.

All hell breaks loose, alarm and sirens wail.

Like the game, if you lose, go to jail.

 

CHORUS:

 

Tonight there's gonna trouble I'm gonna find myself in.

Tonight there's gonna be a jailbreak; so, woman, stay with a friend.

 

Tonight there's gonna be a breakout into the city zones.

Don't you dare to try and stop us.  No-one could for long.

 

Searchlight on my trail.  Tonight's the night all systems fail.

Hey, you good lookin' female, come here!

 

CHORUS:

 

Tonight there's gonna trouble I'm gonna find myself in.

Tonight there's gonna be a jailbreak; so, woman, stay with a friend.