《I’m Here to Get My Baby out of Jail》歌词

[00:03:30] "I'm not in your town to stay,"

[00:03:30] Said a lady old and gray

[00:03:30] To the warden of the penitentiary

[00:03:30] "I'm not in your town to stay

[00:03:30] And I'll soon be on my way

[00:03:30] I'm just here to get my baby out of jail

[00:03:30] Oh, warden, I'm just here to get my baby out of jail."

[00:03:30] "I tried to raise my baby right

[00:03:30] I have prayed both day and night

[00:03:30] That he wouldn't follow the footsteps of his dad

[00:03:30] I have searched both far and wide

[00:03:30] And I feared that he had died

[00:03:30] But at last I've found my baby here in jail

[00:03:30] Oh, warden, at last I've found my baby here in jail."

[00:03:30] "It was just five years today

[00:03:30] When his daddy passed away

[00:03:30] He was found beneath the snow so cold and white

[00:03:30] 'Twas then I vowed to take his ring

[00:03:30] And his gold watch, and his chain

[00:03:30] And the county laid his daddy in the grave

[00:03:30] Yes, warden, the county laid his daddy in the grave."

[00:03:30] "I will pawn you his watch

[00:03:30] I will pawn you his chain

[00:03:30] I will pawn you my diamond wedding ring

[00:03:30] I will wash all your clothes

[00:03:30] I will scrub all your floors

[00:03:30] If that will get my baby out of jail

[00:03:30] Yes, warden, if that will get my baby out of jail."

[00:03:30] Then I heard the warden say

[00:03:30] To the lady old and gray

[00:03:30] "I'll go bring your darlin' baby to your side."

[00:03:30] Two iron gates swang wide apart

[00:03:30] She held her darlin' to her heart

[00:03:30] She kissed her baby boy, and then she died

[00:03:30] But smiling, she kissed her baby boy, and then she died

[00:03:30] "I'm not in your town to stay,"

[00:03:30] Said a lady old and gray

[00:03:30] "I'm just here to get my baby out of jail

[00:03:30] Yes, warden, I'm just here to get my baby out of jail."