Biography:
Ben Miller Band is an American band formed in 2005 in Joplin, Missouri. The band's lineup currently consists of Ben Miller (lead vocalist and guitarist), Scott Leeper (bassist playing a homemade one-string washtub bass, drummer, and back-up vocalist), Rachel Ammons (lead/back-up vocalist, violinist/cellist, guitarist, and electric-cactus player) and Bob Lewis (guitarist/bassist/percussionist). They combines elements of folk, blues, bluegrass, and country into their music.
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Four years of hard work!This month of May we celebrated four years on the air. We continue working on the dissemination of this wonderful instrument, thank you for participating in our story!
[Intro]
G C G A D
G C G D G
[Chorus]
G C G
Well, I don't need no shackles on my twinkle toes
G A D
I don't need no irons on my feet
G C G
And I don't need no shackles on my twinkle toes
G D G
I don't need no irons on my feet
[Verse 1]
G C G
Well, if I die while I'm up here in prison
G A D
They will bury me inside these walls
G C G
And around my tombstone they'll wrap their rounds of razor wire
G D G
So my soul can't go back home to God
[Chorus]
G C G
Well, I don't need no shackles on my twinkle toes
G A D
I don't need no irons on my feet
G C G
And I don't need no shackles on my twinkle toes
G D G
I don't need no irons on my feet
[Verse 2]
G C G
Well, there's no mercy past the gates of entry
G A D
Guards got hearts that'll turn to solid stone
G C G
Oh, how can someone with a gun and billy club
G D G
Kill some boy whose just trying to get back home
[Solo]
G C G A D
G C G D G
[Verse 3]
G C G
Well, there's some evil people here in prison
G A D
Oh, pedophiles and murderers and thieves
G C G
But mostly though it's just petty drug offenders
G D G
Who are trapped like lambs in the jaws of wolves like these
[Verse 4]
G C G
Oh, St. Peter and Gideon and Gabriel
G A D
Strike that note you struck in Jericho
G C G
Let the horns of heaven wreck the walls of prison
G D G
And tell those assholes to let my people go
[Chorus]
G C G
Well, I don't need no shackles on my twinkle toes
G A D
I don't need no irons on my feet
G C G
And I don't need no shackles on my twinkle toes
G D G
I don't need no irons on my feet
G C G A D
G C G D G
[Chorus]
G C G
Well, I don't need no shackles on my twinkle toes
G A D
I don't need no irons on my feet
G C G
And I don't need no shackles on my twinkle toes
G D G
I don't need no irons on my feet
[Verse 1]
G C G
Well, if I die while I'm up here in prison
G A D
They will bury me inside these walls
G C G
And around my tombstone they'll wrap their rounds of razor wire
G D G
So my soul can't go back home to God
[Chorus]
G C G
Well, I don't need no shackles on my twinkle toes
G A D
I don't need no irons on my feet
G C G
And I don't need no shackles on my twinkle toes
G D G
I don't need no irons on my feet
[Verse 2]
G C G
Well, there's no mercy past the gates of entry
G A D
Guards got hearts that'll turn to solid stone
G C G
Oh, how can someone with a gun and billy club
G D G
Kill some boy whose just trying to get back home
[Solo]
G C G A D
G C G D G
[Verse 3]
G C G
Well, there's some evil people here in prison
G A D
Oh, pedophiles and murderers and thieves
G C G
But mostly though it's just petty drug offenders
G D G
Who are trapped like lambs in the jaws of wolves like these
[Verse 4]
G C G
Oh, St. Peter and Gideon and Gabriel
G A D
Strike that note you struck in Jericho
G C G
Let the horns of heaven wreck the walls of prison
G D G
And tell those assholes to let my people go
[Chorus]
G C G
Well, I don't need no shackles on my twinkle toes
G A D
I don't need no irons on my feet
G C G
And I don't need no shackles on my twinkle toes
G D G
I don't need no irons on my feet
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