Four Walls Of Raiford
Lynyrd Skynyrd

Well, them four walls of Raiford closing in on me

Doin' three to five hard labor for armed robbery

I had two years behind me, but I could not wait the time

Every time I thought about it, well, I died some more inside


And I had stripes on my back; memories that hurt

For the only time I seen sunshine is when I get to work

Diggin' ditches for the chain gang; sleepin' in the cold

Oh, Lord, please forgive me for I could not wait no more


And I comin' home to see you, Jesus - well, it feels so close this time

Please take mercy on a soldier from the Florida-Georgia line

When they find me they must kill me - oh, Jesus, save my soul

I can't go back down to Raiford - I can't take that anymore


These last few years behind me, oh Lord, have been so sad

I fought proudly for my country when the times were bad

Now they say I'm guilty - when they find me I must die

Only me and Jesus know that I never stole a dime


Well, when Vietnam was over there was no work here for me

I had a pretty wife awaitin' and two kids I had to feed

Well I'm one of America's heroes

When they shoot me down won't you fly old glory proudly?

Put my medals in the ground


And I comin' home to see you, Jesus - well, it feels so close this time

Please take mercy on a soldier from the Florida-Georgia line

When they find me they must kill me - oh, Jesus, save my soul

I can't go back down to Raiford - I can't take that anymore


  Purchase "Four Walls Of Raiford"   Purchase Entire Album   Email Video to Friends   Play Youtube "Four Walls Of Raiford" Video   Play Spotify "Four Walls Of Raiford" Song   View Wikipedia "Four Walls Of Raiford" Entry   Receive Emails for Future Lynyrd Skynyrd Lyrics

Email:

  Link to "Four Walls Of Raiford"   Share on Facebook, Twitter, and more
  See Recommended Lyrics For You

Loading...

Lyrics by Lynyrd Skynyrd

  \   Ain't No Good Life   Ain't Too Proud to Pray   Ain't No Good Life   Ain't Too Proud To Pray   All Funked Up   All I Can Do Is Write About It   All I Can Do Is Write About It (Acoustic Version)   All I Can Do Is Write About It [Acoustic Version]   All I Can Do Is Write About It [Acoustic][#]   All I Have Is A Song   Am I Losin'   Am I Losin'?   Am I Losin'?   Backstreet Crawler   Ballad of Curtis Loew   Ballad Of Curtis Low   Bang Bang   Bang Bang [*]   Berneice   Best Things In Life   Blame It On A Sad Song   Blues Medley   Born To Run   Brickyard Road   Bring It On   Bring It On [DVD]   Bring It On [DVD]   Call Me The Breeze   Call Me The Breeze (Live)   Call Me the Breeze [1976/Live at the Fox Theater,   Call Me the Breeze [1976/Live at the Fox Theater,   Call Me the Breeze [Alternate Take]   Call Me the Breeze [Alternate Take][*]   Call Me the Breeze [Live At the Fox Theater, Atlan...   Call Me the Breeze [Live]   Call Me the Breeze [Live][*]   Call Me the Breeze [Mono Version][Live][Multimedia...   Can't Take That Away   Can't Take That Away   Cheatin' Woman   Cheatin' Women   Cheatin' Woman   Christmas Time Again   Classical Christmas   Classical Christmas [Instrumental]   Comin' Back for More   Comin' Home   Comin' Home (Original Version)   Comin' Home   Crawl   Crossroad   Crossroads   Cry For The Bad Man   Cry for the Bad Man [Live][#][*]   Curtis Lowe   Dead Man Walkin'   Dead Man Walkin'   Devil in the Bottle   Devil In The Bottle'   Devil In The Bottle'   Dixie   Dixie/Sweet Home Alabama   Do It Up Right   Don't Ask Me No Questions   Don't Ask Me No Questions (Single Version)   Don't Ask Me No Questions   Don’t Ask Me No Questions   Dont Ask Me No Questions   Double Trouble   Double Trouble [2003 - Live At Amsouth Amphitheatr...   Double Trouble [Alternate Take][*]   Double Trouble [Alternate Version]   Double Trouble [DVD]   Double Trouble [Live][*]   Double Trouble [Outtake Version][#][Version]   Double Trouble [Previously Unavailable][Live]   Down South Jukin'   Down South Jukin' (in album Endangered Species)   Down South Jukin'   Down South Jukinu2019   Edge Of Forever   End Of The Road   Every Mother's Son   Every Mother's Son   Family   Fla   Floyd   Floyd (feat. Rob Zombie)   Four Walls Of Raiford (Undubbed Demo)   Four Walls of Raiford [Undubbed Demo][#][Version]   Four Walls of Raiford [Undubbed Demo][Version]   Four Walls Of Railroad   Free Bird   Free Bird - Live At WMC FM   Free Bird (Live From Freedom Hall)   Free Bird (Original Version)   Free Bird [Album Version]   Free Bird [Live]   Free Bird [Version]   Free Bird Live   Freebird   Freebird [DVD]   Full Moon Night   G.W.T.G.G.   Georgia Peaches   Georgia Peaches [*]   Gifted Hands   Gimme Back My Bullets   Gimme Back My Bullets (Live)   Gimme Back My Bullets (Remake)   Gimme Back My Bullets [*]   Gimme Back My Bullets [Album Version]   Gimme Back My Bullets [Live]   Gimme Back My Bullets [Live][*]   Gimme Back My Bullets [Live][#]   Gimme Back My Bullets [Live][#][*]   Gimme Three Steps   Gimme Three Steps (Original Version)   Gimme Three Steps [*][Demo Version]   Gimme Three Steps [Alternate Take]   Gimme Three Steps [Alternate Take][*]   Gimme Three Steps [Live (Fox Theater)]   Gimme Three Steps [Live]   Gimme Three Steps [Live][#]   Gimme Three Steps [Live][#][*][Demo Version]   Gimme Three Steps [Live/Fox Theater]   Gimme Three Steps [Original Version]   Gimme Three Steps [Original Version][#]   Gimmie Three Steps   Give Me Back My Bullets   God & Guns   God And Guns   Gods & Guns   Gone Fishin'   Gone Fishin'   Good Lovin' Hard To Find   Good Lovin's Hard to Find   Good Lovin's Hard To Find   Good Luck, Bad Luck   Good Teacher   Good Thing   Got That Right   Gotta Go   Greensleeves   Hallelujah, It's Christmas   Hallelujah, It's Christmas   He's Alive   He's Alive   Heartbreak Hotel   Hell Or Heaven   Hijo De La Luna   Hilera-define   Hillbilly Blues   Hobo Kinda Man   Hobo Kinda Man [*]   Home Is Where The Heart Is   Homegrown   Honey Hole   Honky Tonk Night Time Man   How Soon We Forget   I Ain't The One   I Ain't The One - Live At WMC FM   I Ain't The One   I Got The Same Old Blues   I Know A Little   I Need You   I Never Dreamed   I Never Dreamed [Alternate Take]   I Never Dreamed [Alternate Version][Alternate Take...   I'm A Country Boy   I've Been Your Fool   I've Seen Enough   I'm A Country Boy   I've Been Your Fool   I've Seen Enough   If I'm Wrong   If I'm Wrong   Introduction / Workin' for MCA   It's A Killer   It's A Killer   Jacksonville Kid   Jake   Jake (When the Smoke Clears)   Junkie   Keeping The Faith   Kiss Your Freedom Goodbye   Last Of A Dyin' Breed   Last of a Dying Breed   Lend A Helpin' Hand   Lend A Helpin' Hand   Life's Lessons   Life's Twisted   Life's Lessons   Little Thing Called You   Love Don't Always Come Easy   Love Don't Always Come Easy   Low Down Dirty   Lucky Man   Lynard Skynard - Freebird   Lynard Skynard - Sweet Home Alabama   Lynard Skynard - Tuesdays Gone   Lynard Skynard - What's Your Name   Mad Hatter   Made In The Shade   Mama   Mama (Afraid To Say Goodbye)   Mama's Song   Mama's Song   Mean Streets   Michelle   Mississippi Blood   Mississippi Kid   Money Back Guarantee   Money Man   Mr. Banker   Need All My Friends   Need All My Friends [Quinvy Demo]   Need You   Needle And The Spoon   Never Too Late   No One Can Take Your Place   None Of Us Are Free   Nothing Comes Easy   O. R. R.   O.R.R.   On The Hunt   On the Hunt [Album Version]   On the Hunt [Live][*]   On the Hunt [Live][#][*]   One Day At A Time   One In The Sun   One More Time   One More Time (Original Version)   One More Time [Original Version]   One More Time [Original Version][#]   One Thing   Ooh That Smell   Outta Hell In My Dodge   Pick 'Em Up   Pick 'em Up   Poison Whiskey   Poison Whisky   Poor Man's Dream   Poor Man's Dream   Preacher Man   Preacher's Daughter   Preacher's Daughter   Pure & Simple   Pure & Simple   Pure And Simple   Pure Simple   Railroad Song   Railroad Song [Live][*]   Railroad Song [Live][#][*]   Raining In My Heartland   Ready To Fly   Red White & Blue [Live]   Red White & Blue [Live][*]   Red White And Blue   Red White And Blue (Live From Freedom Hall)   Red, White, And Blue   Rockin' Little Town   Rockin' Little Town   Roll Gypsy Roll   Rough Around The Edges   Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer   Run Run Rudolph   Sad Song   Santa Claus Is Coming To Town   Santa Claus Wants Some Lovin'   Santa Claus Wants Some Lovin'   Santa's Messin' With the Kid   Saturday Night Special   Saturday Night Special [Album Version]   Saturday Night Special [Instrumental]   Searchin'   Searchin'   Searching   Searching [Alternate Take]   Searching [Alternate Take][#][*]   Searching [Live][#]   Simple Kind Of Man   Simple Life   Simple Man   Simple Man (Live)   Simple Man (Original Version)   Simple Man [*]   Simple Man [30 Year Video Collage]   Simple Man [DVD]   Simple Man [Live]   Simple Man [Original Version]   Skynyrd Family   Skynyrd Nation   Smokestack Lightning   Something To Live For   South Of Heaven   Southern Ways   Southern Women   Start Livin' Life Again   Still Unbroken   Storm   Swamp Music   Sweet Home   Sweet Home Alabama   Sweet Home Alabama - Live At WMC FM   Sweet Home Alabama (Live From Freedom Hall)   Sweet Home Alabama [2003/Live At Amsouth Ampitheat...   Sweet Home Alabama [Alternate Take]   Sweet Home Alabama [Alternate Take][*]   Sweet Home Alabama [DVD]   Sweet Home Alabama [DVD][*]   Sweet Home Alabama [DVD][Live]   Sweet Home Alabama [Live - Alternate Take (Fox The...   Sweet Home Alabama [Live]   Sweet Home Alabama [Live][*]   Sweet Home Alabama [Mono Version][Live][Multimedia...   Sweet Home Alabama [Surround Sound][Live][Multimed...   Sweet Little Missy   Sweet Little Missy [*]   Sweet Mama   T For Texas   T for Texas (Blue Yodel No. 1)   T for Texas (Blue Yodel No. 1) [Fox Theater]   T for Texas (Blue Yodel No. 1) [Live]   T for Texas (Blue Yodel, No. 1)   T For Texas (Live)   Take Me Back   Take Your Time   Take Your Time (B-Side Single Version)   Take Your Time (Sounds Of The South Demo)   Take Your Time [Single Versio/Bside]   Take Your Time [Sounds of the South Demo][*]   Take Your Time [Sounds of the South Demo][#][*]   Talked Myself Right Into It   That Ain't My America   That Smell   That Smell [Album Version]   That Smell [Complete Original Version][#]   That Smell [Criteria Studios Complete Original Alb...   That Smell [DVD]   That Smell [DVD][Live]   That Smell [Edit]   That Smell [Live]   That Smell [Live][#]   That's How I Like It   That's How I Like It   The Ballad Of Curtis Loew   The Ballad of Curtis Loew [Live]   The Ballad Of Curtis Lowe   The Last Rebel   The Needle And The Spoon   The Seasons   The Way   Things Goin' On   Things Goin' On (in album First and... Last)   Things Goin' On   Through It All   Tomorrow's Goodbye   Tomorrow's Goodbye   Travelin' Man   Travelin' Man (Live From Freedom Hall)   Travelin' Man (Live)   Travelin' Man   Travellin' Man   Travlin Man   Truck Drivin' Man   Truck Drivin' Man   Trust   Trust (Original Version)   Tuesday's Gone   Tuesday's Gone   Tuesdays Gone   Unwrite That Song   Voodoo Lake   Voodoo Lake [DVD]   Voodoo Lake [Live]   Was I Right Or Was I Wrong?   Was I Right Or Wrong   Was I Right or Wrong [#]   Was I Right or Wrong [Sounds of the South Demo][*]   Was I Right or Wrong [Sounds of the South Demo][#]...   We Ain't Much Different   We Ain't Much Different   What Can I Do   What's Your Name   What's Your Name?   What's Your Name?   Whats Your Name   When You Got Good Friends   Whiskey Rock A Roller   Whiskey Rock and Roller   Whiskey Rock-A Roller   Whiskey Rock-A-Roller   Whiskey Rock-A-Roller [Live]   Whiskey Rock-A-Roller [Live][#]   Whiskey Rockaroller   White Dove   Wino   Workin'   Workin' (Live From Freedom Hall)   Workin' For Mca   Workin' For MCA - Live At WMC FM   Workin' for MCA (Fox Theater)   Workin' For MCA (Live)   Workin'   Workin' For Mca   Working For Mca   Workinu2019 For MCA   You Got That Right   You Got That Right [Alternate Take]   You Got That Right [Alternate Version][*]   You Got That Right [Alternate Version][Alternate T...   You Got the Rhythm   You Run Around

Related Songs

  Four Walls of Raiford - Betty Rose  Four Walls - Evan Bliss  Four Walls - The Low Life  Four Walls - Charlotte Martin  Four Walls - Kay Starr  Four Walls - Ray Price  Four Walls - Jerry Lee Lewis  Four Walls - Willie Nelson  Four Walls [#] - Floyd Cramer  Four Walls - Bing Crosby  Four Walls - Mesh  Four Walls - Rose Melberg  Four Walls - COG  Four Walls - Bill Monroe  Four Walls - Warner Mack  Four Walls - Warner Mack  Four Walls - Jimmie Dale Gilmore  Four Walls - Randy Travis  Four Walls - Staind  Four Walls - Eddy Arnold  Four Walls - B.J. Thomas  Four Walls - Cold Chisel  Four Walls - Broods  Four Walls - Ernest Tubb  Four Walls - Faron Young  Four Walls - Hank Locklin  Four Walls - The Browns  Four Walls - Jim Reeves  Four Walls - Agathocles  Four Walls - Vallon  Four Walls - Wilma Burgess  Four Walls - Mesh  Four Walls - Kitty Wells  Four Walls - Massive Attack  Four Walls - Jim Reeves  Four Walls - Bastille  Four Walls - Miley Cyrus  Four Walls - Coercion  Four Walls - Crowbar  Four Walls - Cast  Four Walls - Pulley  Four Walls - Cheyenne Kimball  Four Walls - Ronnie Milsap  All Four Walls (ZDot Remix) - Gorgon City   All Four Walls - Gorgon City   All Four Walls (feat. Vaults) - Gorgon City  Hourglass - Clannad  Broods Four Walls is track #10 from the album "Eve...  Inside Four Walls - Nevermore  Four Stone Walls - Capercaillie  Approx.Purified - Earthtone9  1643 - Seth Lakeman  These Four Walls - Miley Cyrus  These Four Walls - Shawn Colvin  These Four Walls - Sara Evans  Four Blue Walls - The Duhks  These Four Walls - 16 Frames  Four White Walls - Hawthorne Heights  Four Enclosed Walls - Public Image Ltd  These Four Walls - LiLi Roquelin  These Four Walls - Catherine Wheel  Four Walls [Live] - Jim Reeves  These four walls - Nevertheless  These Four Walls - Little Mix  These Four Walls - Merry Ellen Kirk  Four Pink Walls - Alessia Cara  These Four Walls - Little Mix  My Four Walls - Pikodeath  My Four Walls - Dawn of Destiny  Inside Four Walls - Mystery Jets  These Four Walls - Holly Drummond  Eggs On Plate - Iggy Pop  Shatterproof - Elvis Costello  One Window Four Walls - Marty Robbins  Cowboy Song - Rufus Wainwright  Shut Down the World (Leaving You)...  Leaving You - Rufus Wainwright  Samantha - Psychic Babble  Life Will Be The Death Of Me - Ordinary Boys  Crashing Down - Emmi  Born To Lose - Jerry Lee Lewis  Bartenders Blues - Indigo Girls  Bartender's Blues - Indigo Girls  Bartender's Blues - Indigo Girls  The Tenant - Ludicra  Corporate Enthusiast - Dead Poetic  If It Hadn't Been For Love - Adele  Tattoo Broken Hearts - Digger  Keep Dreaming - The Creepshow  This Wasn't Supposed To Happen - Army Of Anyone  Buzz a Buzz - Bombadil  In This Room - Gg Allin  If it Hadn't Been for Love [*] - Adele  Magdalen Bridge - Youthmovies  A Place Of Her Own - Bad Examples  Voices - The Acc\u00fcsed  Four Walls (Funeral Version) - Charlotte Martin  Four Walls (Burial Remix) - Massive Attack  Life Will Be The Death Of Me - The Ordinary Boys  These Two Hands - Hana Pestle  This House - Gary Barlow  the hungry - Dog & Panther  Four Walls (The Ballad of Perry Smith) - Bastille  What My Love - Spin Doctors  Taken - Anna Meredith   Subsidence - Edwyn Collins  When Will I Be Loved - Erick Baker  Gemini - Death from Above 1979  Pheromone - Oh, Clemency  Definite Decease (in the Chamber of Deathsalvation...  Four Walled World - Temple Of The Dog  Re: Money - Dani Shay  Relapsing - Boys Night Out  One More Lie In - Delays  To The Loved & The Lost - These Four Walls  Under The Shadows - These Four Walls  We Are The End - These Four Walls  Walk Away - These Four Walls  Matter Of Opinion - These Four Walls  One Moment In Time - These Four Walls  Lay It Out - These Four Walls  Nevergreen - These Four Walls  Sweet December - These Four Walls  Lilith - These Four Walls  Fly Home - These Four Walls  Love Song - These Four Walls  Four Wall Blackmail - Dead Poetic  Padded Cell 4 Walls Pt.2 - Pulley  Blanket of Sorrow - Jason & The Scorchers  If it Hadn't Been for Love - Adele  Break Down the Door - The Special A.K.A.  Break Down the Door - The Specials  Bartender's Blues (feat. George Jones)...  Bartender Blues (w/George Jones) - Trisha Yearwood  Bartender Blues - Trisha Yearwood  Bartender's Blues - George Jones  Bartender Blues - George Jones  Headlights - Tor Miller  Watch Your Back - Nazareth  Falling Up - Collide  If It Hadn't Been for Love - Darryl Worley  Blue Eyed Suicide - Across Five Aprils  Cursed - Deadsun  Arlington Eyes - Dead Poetic  House of Cards (Rare Masters) - Elton John  House of Cards - Elton John  Variation on Friends - Elton John  Til the Night Runs Out - Graham Colton  Live In A Hole - Big Black  Haizman's Brain Is Calling - Angry Samoans  standing tears apart (acoustic) - Remi Nicole  Standing Tears Apart - Remi Nicole  The Whus - Dark Lotus  My Little Box - Gabriel Mann  Voices Within The Walls...  Voices Within Walls - Charred Walls Of The Damned  My Girls - Animal Collective  White Walls - Archeology  George Kaminski - Grand Archives  Draining My Heart - Andragonia  Three Strikes - One Man Army  Slept Through The End Of The World - Barry Manilow  Hiding Place - Mr. Big  Hiding Place [Live] - Mr. Big  Hiding Place - Mr.Big  The Pond and The Stream - Sandy Denny  Four Men - G.B.H.  My Girls - Tears For Fears  Torch - The Psychedelic Furs  Torch - Psychedelic Furs  Prisoner Of Love - Donnie Klang  That's All - Seasick Steve  Polaroid Millenium - Superior  Perpetuated - Dew-Scented  Blue-Eyed Suicide - Across Five Aprils  Your God - Nails  Let's Go Out Tonight - Rick Astley  My Time - Waiting For Sunset  Four Walls (Veins EP Version) - Charlotte Martin  Four Walls and an Amplifier - Brock Berrigan   Four Men [*] - G.B.H.  Four Men - Gbh  In This Room - Nip Drivers  Burn Down The Mission (Live) - Elton John  Burn Down The Mission - Toto  Let Me Go Home - Camera Obscura  Surfers Rule - The Beach Boys  Surfers Rule - Beach Boys  The Last Letter - Helvetika  In Spite Of Everything, Yes - My Pal Trigger  Bouncing Off The Walls - Sugarcult - Soundtracks  O I Sleep - Mogwai  Despite The Waves - Dalis Dilemma  Despite The Waves - Dali's Dilemma  A Storm Blew In - Brandon Rhyder  Against Architecture - Anodyne  Another Dead End (For Another Dead Man)...  Rise - Nothing Final  White Walls - The Maine