Four Walls [C]

artist:Cold Chisel

, writer:Don Walker

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 {t: Four Walls [C] }  
{key: C}  
{artist:Cold Chisel} 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uCMg-JgOu38 
{c: Thanks to Rob Goff}  

[C] [F] [C] [F] x2
 
They're [C] calling time for exercise
Round her [E] Majesty's hotel
The [Am] maid'll hose the room out
While I'm [F] gone... [Dm]
I [C] never knew such [Em] luxury
[F] Before my verdict [Bb] fell....{Pause}
{soc}
Four [C] walls, wash [F] basin, prison [C] bed [F] [C]
{eoc}
Well the [C] Bathurst riots ended
When they [E] clubbed the rebels down
And in [Am] every congregation
There was [F] silence [Dm]....
You can [C] hear the Angels [Em] singin'
When [F] Christmas comes [Bb] around....{Pause}
{soc}
Four [C] walls, wash [F] basin, prison [C] bed [F] [C]
{eoc}
{c:Bridge}
[C] [D] [Eb] I love to [Bb] march while some [F] Nazi calls the [Dm] time
Who'd wanna go [C] home.... [G] [F]  {Pause}
 
[C] I can't see
[E] I can't hear
They've [Am] burnt out all the feeling, and I'm gone [F]...
I've [C] never been so [Em] crazy
And it's [F] just my second [Bb] year....{Pause}
 
Four [C] walls, wash [F] basin
Four [C] walls, wash [F] basin
Four [C] walls, wash [F] basin, prison [C] bed [F] [C]*

Song Info

Title: Four Walls [C]

Artist: Cold Chisel

Writer: Don Walker

Song Types: Rock

Key: C

Info: From Keiran Jolly: "One of my good friends has a theory that Don Walker writes songs that are nostalgic for the present day. It's an insightful point: 'Cheap Wine', 'Showtime', 'Standing On The Outside', 'Flame Trees' and numerous other Cold Chisel classics are written from a wistful point of view that seems older than Walker � who was only a few years into his thirties when Cold Chisel first disbanded.

'Four Walls' isn't one of these songs though, firmly rooted in the tedious day-to-day torture of imprisonment. Who needs that sentimental bullshit when they're calling "time for exercise"?

Prison is clearly one the most inhumane rituals of our present day social structure, but this isn't the appropriate forum to get into that (we'll leave political hot topics to Fitzy and Wippa). This song takes a removed view of it all � a hollow portrayal of a guy just trying to get through it from day to day to day to day. The simple coda at the end of each verse: "four walls, wash basin, prison bed" sums up the simple tedium of his situation so well. It's a horrible, boring, lonely life.

Bitingly sarcastic throughout, 'Four Walls' refers to Bathurst jail, where this song is set, as Her Majesty's hotel, following this with the glib, "the maid'll hose the room out while I'm gone. I never knew such luxury until my verdict fell." By the final verse, all attempts at humour are exhausted."

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artist:Cold Chisel

, writer:Don Walker

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