Alexander "Skip" Spence - Weighted Down (The Prison Song)

from the 1969 album Oar.

The album was recorded after Spence had spent six months in Bellevue Hospital. The majority of the tracks were recorded using a three-track recorder. As described by Ross Bennett, "Combining the ramblings of a man on the brink of mental collapse with some real moments of flippancy and laughter, Oar is a genuinely strange record.

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[MDJarv]

Beautiful song.

[0ldShoes]

I Love this song so much.

[flowerdoodle]

@robieanson The chords? Can't you just figure it out by ear? Fairly simple cowboy chords here. Unless you're just starting on guitar of course.

[ltenof11]

@MDJarv

Did you know this was written as a first person experience? Skippy was never "mad" where music was concerned. I knew a very gentle person.

[robieanson]

anyone know the chords to this by chance?

[SoNickPick]

@phud1975 That's "Gun", not "Cunt"

[kuturekueen]

Love listening to this song when everything seems so hopeless.

[Jeffro321]

From the Jefferson Starship to Moby Grape...

[aaarrrggghhhh]

I thought it said 'weighted down by the gun' but the more I listen the more it sounds like there is a T at the end and it sounds like 'cunt'.

[phud1975]

Am I hearing things, or does he say "Weighted down by the cunt" at 1:34-35? I've heard this a hundred times and just now caught this...

[themitchies]

this one always puts me down, then hits me hard at the end. but it feels good.