I came to tell my to all these young and eager minds To look in their unspoiled faces and their curious bright Stories of corruption, crime and killing, yes it's Greed and fixed elections, and drugs and whores and booze
been a while since I put on a suit of my own clothes And even longer since I cast my shadow on a house door say every sin is deadly but I believe 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 dollar bills in the back pocket of my 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 in the ground than 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 away and toss the key But they're all just loud punks to me, I've scraped meaner off my shoe
Somewhere, I ain't saying, a hole that holds a judge 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 girl out said "Daddy, you stay cool tonight All I need from you is to home and be here by my side Say what you say to shut their Bibles and their mouths If they was to tie a noose, they'd to lay their Bibles down"
I here to save no souls and even if I could I could never save 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 like that fool's in