《Cottonseed》歌词

[00:00:00] I came to tell my story to all these young and eager minds

[00:00:19] To look in their unspoiled faces and their curious bright eyes

[00:00:28] Stories of corruption crime and killing yes it's true

[00:00:36] Greed and fixed elections guns and d**gs and whores and booze

[00:00:52] It's been a while since I put on a suit of my own clothes

[00:00:59] And even longer since I cast my shadow on a church house door

[00:01:08] They say every sin is deadly but I believe they may be wrong

[00:01:16] I'm guilty of all seven and I don't feel too bad at all

[00:01:25] I used to have a wad of hundred dollar bills in the back pocket of my suit

[00:01:32] I had a 45 underneath my coat and another one in my boot

[00:01:42] I drove a big ole Cadillac bought a new one anytime I pleased

[00:01:49] And I put more lawmen in the ground than Alabama put cottonseed

[00:02:05] I spent a few years on vacation sanctioned by the state I mentioned

[00:02:13] But a man like me don't do no time too hard to come back from

[00:02:22] The meanest of the mean I see you lock away and toss the key

[00:02:30] But they're all just loud mouth punks to me I've scraped meaner off my shoe

[00:02:39] Somewhere I ain't saying there's a hole that holds a judge

[00:02:47] The last one that I dug myself

[00:02:49] And I must admit I was sad to lay him in it but I did the best I could

[00:03:03] Once his Honor grows a conscience well folks that there just ain't no good

[00:03:13] There's a pretty girl out there said Daddy you stay cool tonight

[00:03:18] All I need from you is to come home and be here by my side

[00:03:23] Say what you gotta say to shut their Bibles and their mouths

[00:03:28] If they was to tie a noose they'd have to lay their Bibles down

[00:04:30] I ain't here to save no souls and even if I could

[00:04:37] I could never save enough to put back half the ones I took

[00:04:46] So if they rest in torment you can't say it's cause of me

[00:04:54] They'd long been bought and paid for like that fool's in Tennessee