Judge, you wanna hear my plea
Before you open up your court
But I don't want no sympathy
'Cause I done cut my good man's throat
I caught him with a trifling Jane
I warned him 'bout before
I had my knife and went insane
And the rest you ought to know
Judge, Judge, please, Mr. Judge
Send me to the 'lectric chair
Judge, Judge, good Mr. Judge
Let me go away from here
I wanna take a journey
To the devil down below
I done killed my man
I wanna no reap just what I sow
Oh, Judge, Judge, good Mr. Judge
Send me to the lectric chair
Judge, Judge, hear me, Judge
I love him so dear
I cut him with my Barlow
I kicked him in the side
I stood there laughing over him
While he wallowed 'round and died
Oh, Judge, Judge, good Mr. Judge
Send me to the 'lectric chair
Judge, Judge, sweet Mr. Judge
Send me to the 'lectric chair
Judge, Judge, good, kind Judge
Burn me, for I don't care
I don't want no bumbling man
To go my bail
I don't want to spend no
Nine and ninety years in jail
So Judge, Judge, sweet Mr. Judge
Send me to the 'lectric chair
Judge, Judge, good, kind Judge
Send me to the 'lectric chair
Send me to the 'lectric chair
Send me to the 'lectric chair
Send me to the 'lectric~ ch~air~