Theres a lot of strange men in cell block ten   But the strangest of them all   Was a friend of mine who spent his time staring at the wall   Staring at thewall      In his hand was a note that his gal had wrote   And it proves that crime don't pay   She was the very same gal that he robbed and stole for   For naming her wedding day    For naming her wedding day      As he stared at that wall so strong and tall   You could hear him softly curse nobody at all   Ever climbed that wall but i'm gona be the first   Yeah i'm gona be the first      The warden walked by and said son don't try   I'd hate to see you fall   For there is no doubt they'll carry you out   If you ever touch that wall   If you ever touch that wall      Well a years gone by since he made his try   But I can still recall   How hard he tried and the way he died   But he never made that wall   He never made that wall      Theres never been a man ever shook this can   But I know a man who tried   The newspapers called it a jail break plan   But I know it was suicide   I know it was suicide