I came to tell my story to all these and eager minds To look in unspoiled faces and their curious bright eyes Stories of corruption, and killing, yes it's true Greed and fixed elections, and drugs and whores and booze
been a while since I put on a suit of my own clothes And longer since 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 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 my coat 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 spent a few years on vacation, sanctioned by the I mentioned But a man like me don't do no too hard to come 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, I've meaner off my shoe
Somewhere, I ain't saying, there's a hole holds a judge The last one 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 there just ain't no
There's a pretty girl out there said "Daddy, you cool tonight All I need you is to come home and be here by my side Say what you gotta say to shut their Bibles and their 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 never save enough to put back 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 that fool's in Tennessee