I came to tell my story to all these young and eager To in their unspoiled faces and their curious bright eyes Stories of corruption, crime and killing, yes true and fixed elections, guns and drugs and whores and booze
It's been a while since I put on a of my own clothes And longer since I cast my shadow on a church house door 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 dollar bills in the back pocket of my suit I had a .45 underneath my coat and one in my boot I drove a big ole Cadillac, a new one anytime I pleased And I put more lawmen in the ground Alabama put cottonseed
I spent a few years on vacation, sanctioned by the state I 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 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 must admit I was sad to lay him in it, but I did the I could Once his Honor grows a conscience, well folks, that there just no good
There's a pretty girl out there said "Daddy, you stay tonight All I need from you is to come home and be here by my Say what you gotta say to shut their Bibles and mouths If was to tie a noose, they'd have to lay their Bibles down"
I here to save no souls and even if I could I could never save enough to put back the ones I took So if they in torment you can't say it's cause of me They'd long bought and paid for like that fool's in Tennessee