I came to tell my story to all these young and minds To look in their unspoiled faces and their bright eyes Stories of corruption, crime and killing, yes true Greed and fixed elections, guns and and whores and booze
It's been a while since I put on a of my own clothes And even longer I cast my shadow on a church house door They say every sin is deadly but I 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 bills in the back pocket of my suit I had a .45 underneath my coat and another one in my I a big ole Cadillac, bought a new one anytime I pleased And I put more lawmen in the ground than Alabama put
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 meanest of the mean, I see you away and toss the key But they're all just loud mouth punks to me, I've scraped off my shoe
Somewhere, I saying, there's a hole that holds a judge The last one I dug myself And I must I was sad to lay him in it, but I did the best I could Once his Honor grows a conscience, well folks, that there ain't no good
There's a pretty girl out said "Daddy, you stay cool tonight All I from you is to come 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, have to lay their Bibles down"
I ain't here to save no and even if I could I could never save enough to put back half the ones I So if they in torment you can't say it's cause of me long been bought and paid for like that fool's in Tennessee