I came to tell my story to all these and eager minds To look in their unspoiled faces and their curious bright Stories of corruption, and killing, yes it's true Greed and elections, guns and drugs and whores and booze
It's a while since I put on a suit of my own clothes And even longer since I cast my shadow on a church door They say sin is deadly but I believe they may be wrong I'm guilty of all seven and I don't too bad at all
I used to have a wad of hundred dollar bills in the back pocket of my 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, by the state I mentioned 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 hole that holds a 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 a conscience, well folks, that there just ain't no good
There's a girl out there said "Daddy, you stay cool tonight All I need from you is to come home and be by my side Say what you gotta say to their Bibles and their mouths If they was to tie a noose, they'd have to lay Bibles down"
I ain't here to save no souls and even if I I could never enough to put back half the ones I took So if they rest in you can't say it's cause of me They'd long been bought and paid for like that fool's in