I came to tell my to all these young and eager minds To look in unspoiled faces and their curious bright eyes of corruption, crime and killing, yes it's true Greed and fixed elections, guns and drugs and and booze
It's been a while since I put on a suit of my own And even longer since I my shadow on a church house door They say sin is deadly 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 my coat and another one in my boot I drove a big ole Cadillac, a new one anytime I pleased And I put lawmen 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 too hard to come back from The meanest of the mean, I see you lock away and the key But they're all just loud mouth punks to me, I've scraped 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 best I Once his Honor a conscience, well folks, that there just ain't no good
There's a pretty girl out there said "Daddy, you stay cool All I need from you is to come and be here by my side Say what you gotta say to shut 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 enough to put back the ones I took So if they rest in torment you say it's cause of me They'd long been and paid for like that fool's in Tennessee