I to tell my story 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 elections, guns and drugs and whores and booze
It's been a while since I put on a of my own clothes And even longer since I cast my shadow on a house door They say every sin is but I believe they may be wrong I'm guilty of all seven and I don't too bad at all
I used to a wad of hundred dollar bills 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 anytime I And I put more in the ground than Alabama put cottonseed
I spent a few years on vacation, sanctioned by the state I But a man like me don't do no time too hard to back from The meanest of the mean, I see you 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 a judge The last one 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, that there ain't no good
There's a pretty girl out there said "Daddy, you stay tonight All I from you is to come home and be here by my side Say what you gotta say to shut their Bibles and mouths If they was to tie a noose, they'd have to lay their down"
I ain't here to save no souls and even if I I could never save enough to put half the ones I took So if they rest in torment you can't say it's of me They'd long been and paid for like that fool's in Tennessee