[00:00.180]"I'm not in your town to stay"
[00:03.620]Said a lady old and gray
[00:05.550]
[00:06.680]To the warden of the penitentiary
[00:09.300]
[00:13.300]"I'm not in your town to stay
[00:15.590]
[00:16.840]And I'll soon be on my way
[00:19.040]
[00:20.460]I'm just here to get my baby out of jail
[00:24.650]
[00:26.140]Oh, warden, I'm just here to get my baby out of jail"
[00:32.570]
[00:36.330]"I tried to raise my baby right
[00:38.890]
[00:40.140]I have prayed both day and night
[00:42.380]
[00:43.750]That he wouldn't follow the footsteps of his dad"
[00:47.250]
[00:49.930]"I have searched both far and wide
[00:52.180]
[00:53.860]And I feared that he had died
[00:55.860]
[00:57.420]But at last I've found my baby here in jail
[01:02.220]
[01:03.530]Oh, warden, at last I've found my baby here in jail"
[01:10.520]
[01:23.010]"It was just 5 years today
[01:25.310]
[01:26.380]When his daddy passed away
[01:28.190]
[01:29.490]He was found beneath the snow so cold and white"
[01:33.620]
[01:35.360]"'Twas then I vowed to take his ring
[01:38.110]
[01:38.920]And his gold watch and his chain
[01:41.620]
[01:42.360]Then the county laid his daddy in the grave
[01:46.170]
[01:47.230]Yes, warden, the county laid his daddy in the grave"
[01:52.840]
[01:58.780]"I will pawn you his watch
[02:01.830]I will pawn you his chain
[02:04.330]
[02:05.200]I will pawn you my diamond wedding ring"
[02:09.500]
[02:11.940]"I will wash all your clothes
[02:14.940]I will scrub all your floors
[02:17.620]
[02:18.310]If that will get my baby out of jail
[02:22.800]
[02:23.740]Yes, warden, if that will get my baby out of jail"
[02:29.480]
[02:34.840]Then I heard the warden say
[02:37.280]
[02:37.960]To the lady old and gray
[02:40.580]
[02:41.450]"I'll go bring your darlin' baby to your side"
[02:45.760]
[02:47.390]Two iron gates swang wide apart
[02:50.130]
[02:50.750]She held her darlin' to her heart
[02:53.380]
[02:54.120]She kissed her baby boy and then she died
[02:58.310]
[02:59.420]But smiling, she kissed her baby boy and then she died
[03:04.980]
[03:49.110]"I'm not in your town to stay"
[03:52.480]
[03:53.100]Said a lady old and gray
[03:55.600]
[03:56.660]"I'm just here to get my baby out of jail
[04:01.520]
[04:02.970]Yes, warden, I'm just here to get my baby out of jail"
[04:11.570]