I to tell my story to all these young and eager minds To look in their unspoiled 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 a while since I put on a suit of my own clothes And even longer since I cast my shadow on a church 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 bills in the back of my suit I had a .45 underneath my coat and one in my boot I drove a big ole Cadillac, bought a new one anytime I And I put more 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 time too hard to come from The meanest of the mean, I see you lock and toss the key But they're all just loud mouth punks to me, I've meaner off my shoe
Somewhere, I ain't saying, there's a hole holds a judge The one that I dug myself And I admit I was sad to lay him in it, but I did the best I could 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 tonight All I need from you is to come and be here by my side Say what you gotta say to their Bibles and their mouths If they was to tie a noose, have to lay their Bibles down"
I here to save no souls and even if I could I could never save enough to put back half the I took So if they rest in torment you can't say it's of me They'd long been bought and for like that fool's in Tennessee