I came to tell my story to all these and eager minds To look in their unspoiled faces and their curious bright Stories of corruption, crime and killing, yes true Greed and fixed elections, guns and drugs and 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 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 in the back pocket of my suit I had a .45 my coat and another one in my boot I a big ole Cadillac, bought a new one anytime I pleased And I put more lawmen in the ground Alabama 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 hard to come back The of the mean, I see you lock away 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, there's a hole that holds a 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 grows a conscience, folks, that there just ain't no good
There's a pretty girl out there said "Daddy, you cool tonight All I need from you is to home and be here by my side Say what you gotta say to shut their and their mouths If they was to tie a noose, they'd have to lay Bibles 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