I came to my story to all these young and eager minds To look in their unspoiled and their curious bright eyes of corruption, crime 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 since I cast my shadow on a church house door They say every sin is but I believe they may be wrong I'm guilty of all seven and I 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 another one in my I a big ole Cadillac, bought a new one anytime I pleased And I put more lawmen in the ground than 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 away and toss the key But they're all just loud mouth 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 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 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 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 half the I took So if they rest in torment you can't say cause of me They'd long been bought and for like that fool's in Tennessee