I came to tell my story to all these young and minds To look in their unspoiled faces and curious bright eyes Stories of corruption, and killing, yes it's true Greed and fixed elections, guns and drugs and and booze
It's been a while since I put on a of my own clothes And even longer since I my shadow on a church house door They say every sin is deadly but I believe 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 bills in the back pocket of my suit I had a .45 underneath my coat and one in my boot I a big ole Cadillac, bought a new one anytime I pleased And I put lawmen 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 too hard to come back from The meanest of the mean, I see you lock and toss the key But they're all just mouth punks to me, I've scraped meaner off my shoe
Somewhere, I ain't saying, there's a hole holds a judge The last one that I dug 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 just ain't no good
There's a pretty girl out said "Daddy, you stay cool tonight All I need from you is to come home and be here by my Say what you say to shut their Bibles and their mouths If they was to tie a noose, they'd have to lay their down"
I ain't here to save no and even if I could I could never save to put back half the ones I took So if they rest in torment you can't say it's of me They'd long been and paid for like that fool's in Tennessee