EARLY ONE MORNIN'
WHILE MAKIN' THE ROUNDS
TOOK A SHOT OF COCAINE
AND I SHOT MY WOMAN DOWN
WENT RIGHT HOME
AND I WENT TO BED
I STUCK THAT LOVIN'
FORTY-FOUR
BENEATH MY HEAD
GOT UP NEXT MORNIN'
AND I GRABBED THAT GUN
TOOK A SHOT OF COCAINE
AND AWAY I RUN
MADE A GOOD RUN
BUT I RUN TOO SLOW
THEY OVERTOOK ME
DOWN IN JUAREZ, MEXICO
LAID IN THE HOP JOINTS
TAKIN' THE PILL
IN WALKED THE SHERIFF
FROM JERICHO HILL
HE SAID, WILLY LEE
YOUR NAME IS NOT JACK BROWN
YOU'RE THE DIRTY HOP THAT
SHOT YOUR WOMAN DOWN
I SAID YES, SIR
MY NAME IS WILLY LEE
IF YOU'VE GOT A WARRANT
JUST A-READ IT TO ME
SHOT HER DOWN BECAUSE
SHE MADE ME SORE
I THOUGHT I WAS HER DADDY
BUT SHE HAD FIVE MORE
WELL, I WAS ARRESTED
I WAS DRESSED IN BLACK
THEY PUT ME ON A TRAIN
AND THEY TOOK ME BACK
I HAD NO FRIENDS
FOR TO GO MY BAIL
THEY SLAPPED
MY DRIED-UP CARCASS
IN THAT COUNTY JAIL
GOT UP NEXT MORNIN'
'BOUT A-HALF PAST NINE
I SPIED THE SHERIFF
COMIN' DOWN THE LINE
HOPPED AND HE COUGHED
AS HE CLEARED HIS THROAT
HE SAID, COME ON
YOU DIRTY HOP
INTO THAT DISTRICT COURT
INTO THE COURTROOM
MY TRIAL BEGAN
WHERE I WAS HANDLED
BY TWELVE HONEST MEN
JUST BEFORE
THE JURY STARTED OUT
I SAW THAT LITTLE JUDGE
COMMENCE TO LOOK ABOUT
IN ABOUT FIVE MINUTES
IN WALKED THE MAN
HOLDING THE VERDICT
IN HIS RIGHT HAND
THE VERDICT READ
IN THE FIRST DEGREE
I HOLLERED
LAWDY, LAWDY
HAVE MERCY ON ME
THE JUDGE HE SMILED
AS HE PICKED UP HIS PEN
NINETY-NINE YEARS
IN THE FOLSOM PEN
NINETY-NINE YEARS
UNDERNEATH THAT GROUND
I CAN'T FORGET THE DAY
I SHOT MY WOMAN DOWN
COME ALL YOU HOPS
AND LISTEN UNTO ME
LAY OFF THAT WHISKEY
AND LET THAT COCAINE BE...