I came to my story 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 fixed elections, and drugs and whores and booze
It's a while since I put on a suit of my own clothes And even longer since I cast my on a church house door say every 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 a wad of hundred dollar bills in the back pocket of my suit I had a .45 underneath my coat and one in my boot I drove a big ole Cadillac, a new one anytime I pleased And I put more lawmen in the ground than put cottonseed
I spent a few years on vacation, by the state I mentioned But a man like me don't do no time too hard to come from The of the mean, I see you lock away and toss the key But they're all just loud mouth punks to me, I've scraped meaner off my
Somewhere, I saying, there's a hole that holds a judge The last one that I dug And I admit I was sad to lay him in it, but I did the best I could Once his Honor grows a conscience, well folks, there just ain't no good
There's a pretty girl out there "Daddy, you stay cool tonight All I need from you is to come and be here by my side Say what you gotta say to shut their Bibles and their If they was to tie a noose, they'd have to lay their down"
I here to save no souls and even if I could I could never save enough to put half the ones I took 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