[00:07.69]"I'm not in your town to stay,"“
[00:12.27]Said a lady old and gray
[00:16.81]To the warden of the penitentiary
[00:24.79]"I'm not in your town to stay“
[00:29.30]And I'll soon be on my way
[00:34.00]I'm just here to get my baby out of jail
[00:40.50]Oh warden,
[00:42.24]I'm just here to get my baby out of jail"
[00:48.73]
[00:49.97]"I tried to raise my baby right“
[00:54.53]I have prayed both day and night
[00:58.90]That he wouldn't follow the footsteps of his dad
[01:07.13]I have searched both far and wide
[01:11.75]And I feared that he had died
[01:15.71]But at last I've found my baby here in jail
[01:22.56]Oh warden,
[01:24.56]At last I've found my baby here in jail"
[01:30.66]
[01:32.17]"It was just five years today“
[01:36.65]When his daddy passed away
[01:40.93]He was found beneath the snow so cold and white
[01:48.97]It was then I bowed to take his ring
[01:53.30]And his gold watch and his chain
[01:57.33]When the county laid his daddy in the grave
[02:03.58]Yes warden,
[02:05.79]The county laid his daddy in the grave"
[02:12.10]
[02:13.76]"I will pawn you his watch“
[02:17.99]I will pawn you his chain
[02:22.27]I will pawn you my diamond wedding ring
[02:30.87]I will wash all your clothes
[02:35.14]I will wash all your floors
[02:39.25]If that will get my baby out of jail
[02:45.50]Yes warden,
[02:47.37]If that will get my baby out of jail"
[02:54.31]
[02:55.64]Then I heard the warden say
[03:00.70]To the lady old and gray:
[03:04.94]"I'll go bring your darling baby to your side"“
[03:11.87]Two iron gates swung wide apart
[03:16.23]She held her darling to her heart
[03:21.60]She kissed her baby boy and then she died
[03:26.87]But smiling,
[03:29.39]She kissed her baby boy and then she died
[03:35.48]
[03:36.83]"I'm not in your town to stay,"“
[03:41.48]Said a lady old and gray
[03:46.14]"I'm just here to get my baby out of jail“
[03:51.74]Yes warden,
[03:54.13]I'm just here to get my baby out of jail"