TUPELO COUNTY JAIL
(Mel Tillis / Webb Pierce)

Webb Pierce - 1958
The Jon Deaux Trio - 1960
The Stonemans - 1966
Dickey Lee - 1972
Southern Blend - 1987
Joy Lynn White & Robbie Fulks - 2002

Also recorded by: Mel Tillis; Old 97's; James O'Gwynn



As recorded by WEBB PIERCE:

Send my letters in care of
The Tupelo County Jail

Come on and write, write, write me a letter
Send that letter by mail
Send that letter in care of
The Tupelo County Jail

Come on and wish me the best of luck, dear
There's no one to go my bail
There's never been a place so lonely
As the Tupelo County Jail

Fill that letter full of kisses
Gonna have me a ball
Baby, kisses on paper
Are better than no kisses at all

Come on and write, write, write me a letter
Send that letter by mail
Send that letter in care of
The Tupelo County Jail

(Instrumental Break)

Fill that letter full of kisses
Gonna have me a ball
Baby, kisses on paper
Are better than no kisses at all

Come on and write, write, write me a letter
Send that letter by mail
Send that letter in care of
The Tupelo County Jail

Send that letter in care of
The Tupelo County Jail
The Tupelo County Jail


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As recorded by the JON DEAUX TRIO:

Why don't you write, write, write me a letter
Send that letter by mail
Send that letter in care of
The Tupelo County jail

Why don't you send me the best of love, dear
There's no one to go my bail
Never been a place so lonely,
As the Tupelo County jail

Send that letter full of kisses
Over these prison walls
'Cause, baby, kisses on paper
Are better than no kisses at all

Oh, write, write, write me a letter
Send that letter by mail
Send that letter in care of
The Tupelo County jail

(Instrumental Break)

I hear the freight train pass my window
Callin' me to ride the rail
Ball and chain gonna keep me
In the Tupelo County jail

Why don't you write, write, write, me a letter
Send that letter by mail
Send that letter in care of
The Tupelo County jail

Stone walls do not a prison make!


(Transcribed by Mel Priddle - September 2018)