I came to my story to all these young and eager minds To look in their unspoiled faces and curious bright eyes Stories of corruption, crime and killing, yes it's Greed and fixed elections, and drugs and whores and booze
It's been a while I put on a suit of my own clothes And longer since I cast my shadow on a church house door They say 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 in the back 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, sanctioned by the I mentioned But a man like me don't do no time too hard to come back The meanest of the mean, I see you lock and toss the key But they're all just mouth punks to me, I've scraped meaner off my shoe
Somewhere, I ain't saying, a hole that holds a judge The last one 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 said "Daddy, you stay cool tonight All I need you is to come 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 ain't here to save no and even if I could I could never save enough to put back the ones I took So if they rest in you can't say it's cause of me They'd long been bought and paid for that fool's in Tennessee