I came to tell my to all these young and eager minds To look in their unspoiled and their curious bright eyes Stories of corruption, crime and killing, yes true Greed and fixed elections, guns and and whores and booze
It's been a while I put on a suit of my own clothes And even longer since I cast my shadow on a house door They say sin is deadly but I believe they may be wrong I'm of all seven and I don't feel too bad at all
I used to a wad of hundred dollar bills in the back pocket of my suit I had a .45 underneath my and another one in my boot I drove a big ole Cadillac, bought a new one anytime I And I put more lawmen in the ground than Alabama put
I spent a few years on vacation, sanctioned by the state I But a man like me do no time too hard to come back from The of the mean, I see you lock away and toss the key But all just loud mouth punks to me, I've scraped meaner off my shoe
Somewhere, I ain't saying, there's a that holds a judge The last one that I dug And I must I was sad to lay him in it, but I did the best I could his Honor grows a conscience, well folks, that there just ain't no good
There's a pretty out there said "Daddy, you stay cool tonight All I need you is to come home and be here by my side Say what you gotta say to shut their Bibles and their If they was to tie a noose, they'd have to lay Bibles down"
I ain't here to save no souls and if I could I never save enough to put back 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 in Tennessee