I came to tell my story to all these young and eager To look in their unspoiled faces and curious bright eyes of corruption, crime and killing, yes it's true Greed and fixed elections, and drugs and whores and booze
It's been a while since I put on a suit of my own And even longer since I cast my 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 hundred dollar bills in the pocket of my suit I had a .45 underneath my coat and another one in my I drove a big ole Cadillac, bought a new one I pleased And I put more in the ground than Alabama put cottonseed
I spent a few years on vacation, by the state I mentioned But a man like me don't do no time too hard to 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 one that 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, there just ain't no good
There's a pretty 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 shut their Bibles and their If they was to tie a noose, they'd have to lay their down"
I ain't to save no souls and even if I could I could 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 that fool's in Tennessee