I came to my story to all these young and eager minds To look in their unspoiled faces and their curious eyes Stories of corruption, crime and killing, yes it's 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 cast my 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 bills in the back 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 ground than put cottonseed
I spent a few years on vacation, sanctioned by the I mentioned But a man me don't do no time too hard to come back 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 meaner off my
Somewhere, I ain't saying, there's a hole holds a judge The last one 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, well folks, that just ain't no good
There's a girl out there 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, have to lay their Bibles down"
I ain't here to save no souls and if I could I could never save enough to put half the ones I took So if they in torment you can't say it's cause of me They'd long been and paid for like that fool's in Tennessee