I came to tell my story to all these and eager minds To look in unspoiled faces and their curious bright eyes Stories of corruption, crime and killing, yes it's Greed and fixed elections, guns and drugs and and booze
It's been a since I put on a suit of my own clothes And even longer since I cast my shadow on a church door They say every sin is but I believe they may be wrong I'm of all seven and I don't feel too bad at all
I used to have a wad of hundred dollar bills in the back of my suit I had a .45 underneath my coat and another one in my I drove a big ole Cadillac, bought a new one anytime I And I put more lawmen in the than Alabama put cottonseed
I spent a few on vacation, sanctioned by the state I mentioned But a man like me don't do no time too to come back from The meanest of the mean, I see you lock away and the key But they're all just loud mouth to me, I've scraped meaner off my shoe
Somewhere, I ain't saying, a hole that holds a judge The last one I dug myself And I admit I was sad to lay him in it, but I did the best I could Once his Honor grows a conscience, folks, that there just ain't no good
There's a pretty girl out there said "Daddy, you cool tonight All I need from you is to home and be here by my side Say what you gotta say to shut their Bibles and mouths If they was to tie a noose, they'd to lay their Bibles down"
I ain't here to no souls and even if I could I could never save enough to put half the ones I took So if they in torment you can't say it's cause of me They'd long been bought and paid for like that fool's in