[00:05.10]Early one morning while making the rounds
[00:07.43]I took a shot of cocaine and I shot my woman down
[00:11.62]I went right home and I went to bed
[00:15.71]I stuck that loving 44 beneath my head
[00:19.97]Got up next morning and I grabbed that gun
[00:23.65]took a shot of cocaine and away I run
[00:27.58]Made a good run but I run too slow
[00:31.64]they overtook me down in Juarez Mexico
[00:34.76]Late in the hot joints taking the pills
[00:39.32]in walked the sheriff from Jericho Hill
[00:42.75]He said Willy Lee your name is not Jack Brown
[00:47.38]You're the dirty heck that shot your woman down
[00:50.95]Said yes oh yes my name is Willy Lee
[00:54.85]if you've got the warrant just aread it to me
[00:59.11]Shot her down because she made me sore
[01:02.61]I thought I was her daddy but she had five more
[01:06.60]When I was arrested I was dressed in black
[01:12.59]They put me on a train and they took me back
[01:16.71]Had no friend for to go my bail
[01:20.51]they slapped my dried up carcass in that country jail
[01:24.01]Early next morning bout a half past nine
[01:28.35]I spied the sheriff coming down the line
[01:31.92]Ah and he coughed as he cleared his throat
[01:36.05]He said come on you dirty heck into that district court
[01:39.48]Into the courtroom my trial began
[01:43.23]where I was handled by twelve honest men
[01:47.85]Just before the jury started out
[01:51.53]I saw the little judge commence to look about
[01:55.65]In about five minutes in walked the man
[02:01.03]holding the verdict in his right hand
[02:04.41]The verdict read in the first degree
[02:07.99]I hollered Lowdy Lowdy have a mercy on me
[02:12.24]The judge he smiled as he picked up his ben
[02:16.74]99 years in the Folsom pen
[02:20.11]99 years underneath that ground
[02:23.85]I can't forget the day I shot that bad bitch down
[02:28.22]Come on you've gotta listen unto me
[02:31.65]lay off that whiskey and let that cocaine be