I came to tell my to all these young and eager minds To in their unspoiled faces and their curious bright eyes of corruption, crime and killing, yes it's true Greed and elections, guns and drugs and whores and booze
It's been a since I put on a suit of my own clothes And even longer 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 don't 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 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 of the mean, I see you lock away 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 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 grows a conscience, 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 you gotta say to shut their Bibles and their mouths If was to tie a noose, they'd have to lay their Bibles down"
I ain't to save no souls and even if I could I could never save enough to put back half the ones I So if they rest in you can't say it's cause of me They'd long been bought and paid for like fool's in Tennessee