I came to tell my story to all these and eager minds To look in their unspoiled faces and their curious eyes of corruption, crime and killing, yes it's true Greed and fixed elections, guns and drugs and whores and
been a while since I put on a suit of my own clothes And even longer I cast my shadow on a church house door They say every sin is deadly but I believe 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 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 than Alabama put cottonseed
I a few years on vacation, sanctioned by the state I mentioned But a man like me do no time too hard to come back from The meanest of the mean, I see you lock and toss the key But they're all just loud mouth punks to me, scraped meaner off my shoe
Somewhere, I ain't saying, there's a hole that holds a 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, that just ain't no good
There's a pretty out there said "Daddy, you stay 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 here to save no souls and if I could I never save enough to put back half the ones I took So if they rest in torment you can't say it's of me They'd long been bought and paid for that fool's in Tennessee