I walked through the big yard, to feel the warm sunshine   A ninety-nine year man, stepped over to me   He offered a smoke, and said as I rolled it   "Tomorrow I'm goin', to break out and go free"      "They feed us by sunlight, they watch us by spotlight   But I know a way that a man can go free   Down under my cell, I'm diggin' a tunnel   The walls of a prison can never hold me"      I told him that, I'd have no part of his scheming   My time would be up, one year from today   His eyes blazed with fire, and he looked right through me   Bitter, but broken, again he did say      "They feed us by sunlight, they watch us by spotlight   But I know a way that a man can go free   Down under my cell, I'm diggin' a tunnel   The walls of a prison can never hold me"      Next morning at breakfast, the old man was missing   Then we all heard the rifles high up on the wall   He'd gone through the tunnel, just like he had promised   And they said he was crying, when they saw him fall      They feed us by sunlight, they watch us by spotlight   But I know a way that a man can go free   Down under my cell, I'm diggin' a tunnel   The walls of a prison can never hold me