[00:07.94]Early one morning while making the rounds
[00:11.25]I took a shot of cocaine and I shot my woman down
[00:14.56]I went right home and I went to bed
[00:17.68]I stuck that loving 44 beneath my head
[00:19.92]
[00:24.04]Got up next morning and I grabbed that gun
[00:27.10]took a shot of cocaine and away I run
[00:30.23]Made a good run but I run too slow
[00:33.60]they overtook me down in Juarez Mexico
[00:35.20]
[00:40.13]Late in the hot joints taking the pills
[00:43.06]in walked the sheriff from Jericho Hill
[00:46.37]He said Willy Lee your name is not Jack Brown
[00:49.74]You're the dirty heck that shot your woman down
[00:51.09]
[00:56.90]Said yes oh yes my name is Willy Lee
[00:59.83]if you've got the warrant just aread it to me
[01:03.20]Shot her down because she made me sore
[01:06.26]I thought I was her daddy but she had five more
[01:08.08]
[01:13.00]When I was arrested I was dressed in black
[01:15.81]They put me on a train and they took me back
[01:18.87]Had no friend for to go my bail
[01:21.86]they slapped my dried up carcass in that country jail
[01:27.04]
[01:56.25]Early next morning bout a half past nine
[01:59.12]I spied the sheriff coming down the line
[02:02.49]Ah and he coughed as he cleared his throat
[02:05.38]He said come on you dirty heck into that district court
[02:12.74]Into the courtroom my trial began
[02:15.68]where I was handled by twelve honest men
[02:17.16]
[02:18.84]Just before the jury started out
[02:22.34]I saw the little judge commence to look about
[02:28.52]In about five minutes in walked the man
[02:31.45]holding the verdict in his right hand
[02:34.57]The verdict read in the first degree
[02:37.75]I hollered Lowdy Lowdy have a mercy on me
[02:44.05]
[02:45.05]The judge he smiled as he picked up his ben
[02:48.11]99 years in the Folsom pen
[02:51.35]99 years underneath that ground
[02:54.48]I can't forget the day I shot that bad bitch down
[02:57.31]
[03:01.18]Come on you've gotta listen unto me
[03:03.86]lay off that whiskey and let that cocaine be