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Folsom Prison – Three Days to Freedom
A raw, gritty Hard-Country/Americana track about a prisoner who’s only three days away from freedom after ten long years behind bars.
The song captures the mix of hope, fear, doubt, and the weight of everything that’s waiting outside the prison walls.
Slide dobro, acoustic steel guitar, deep baritone vocals, and a Texas-style prison-yard groove set the mood for this emotional story.

If you enjoy storytelling country songs, prison-blues vibes, dark Americana, or artists like Johnny Cash, Cody Jinks, Colter Wall, or Chris Stapleton, this track is for you.

Listen, share, and leave a comment — what would you feel three days before freedom?

Lyrics – “Folsom Prison – Three Days to Freedom”

Verse 1
Three days from freedom, I’m countin’ every sound,
Steel bars are hummin’, boots echo on the ground.
Ten long years behind me, carved lines upon my face,
But the road outside this razor wire still feels like a stranger’s place.

Pre-Chorus
Will the sun still warm me like it used to?
Will my name mean anything at all?

Chorus
I’m standin’ at the edge of somethin’
I prayed for, night after night.
But freedom’s just a word until
You step into the light.
Three days, two days, one day more…
Till that old steel gate rolls open wide,
And I walk out the door.

Verse 2
Two days from freedom, the boys all slap my back,
Sayin’ “Man, you made it,” though it’s more than luck I lack.
My old friends on the outside—did they wait, or drift away?
Or am I walkin’ into shadows where no memory wants to stay?

Pre-Chorus 2
Time don’t stop for no one,
I’ve learned that in these walls.

Chorus 2
(Repeat Chorus)

Bridge (spoken)
Ten years of thinkin’, ten years of pain,
Ten years watchin’ winter fall like cold, hard rain.
Now the wind is changin’, callin’ out my name…
But freedom cuts deeper than these chains.

Verse 3
One day from freedom, I barely sleep at all.
My heart is beatin’ louder than that midnight siren call.
I’ve paid for every moment, paid in blood and bone,
Now the world is waitin’—but I’ll face it on my own.

Final Chorus
(Repeat Chorus)

Outro
Yeah, the gate swings open,
And the sun hits my eyes—
Ten years later…
I’m finally alive.



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