I came to tell my story to all these and eager minds To look in their unspoiled faces and curious bright eyes of corruption, crime and killing, yes it's 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 church house They say every sin is deadly but I 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 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 I pleased And I put more lawmen in the ground Alabama put cottonseed
I a few years on vacation, sanctioned by the state I mentioned But a man like me don't do no time too hard to come from The meanest of the mean, I see you lock away and the key But they're all just loud mouth punks to me, scraped meaner off my shoe
Somewhere, I ain't saying, there's a hole that a judge The one that I dug myself And I must admit I was sad to lay him in it, but I did the best I Once his Honor a conscience, well folks, that there just ain't no good
There's a pretty girl out there "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 Bibles and their mouths If they was to tie a noose, have to lay their Bibles down"
I ain't here to no souls and even if I could I could never save enough to put back half the ones I 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