[Intro]
Dm (With Riff 1 thrown in at the end.)
[Verse 1]
Dm F G
I came to tell my story to all these young and eager minds
F Em Dm
To look in their unspoiled faces and their curious bright eyes
Dm F G
Stories of corruption, crime and killing, yes it's true
F Em Dm
Greed and fixed elections, guns and drugs and whores and booze
[Verse 2]
Dm F G
It's been a while since I put on a suit of my own clothes
F Em Dm
And even longer since I cast my shadow on a church house door
Dm F G
They say every sin is deadly, but I believe they may be wrong
F Em Dm
I'm guilty of all seven, and I don't feel too bad at all
[Chorus 1]
Dm F G
I used to have a wad of hundred dollar bills in the back pocket of my suit
F Em Dm
I had a .45 underneath my coat, and another one in my boot
Dm F G
I drove a big ole Cadillac, bought a new one anytime I pleased
F Em Dm
And I put more lawmen in the ground than Alabama put cottonseed
[Verse 3]
Dm F G
I spent a few years on vacation, sanctioned by the state I mentioned
F Em Dm
But see, a man like me don't do no time too hard to come back from
Dm F G
The meanest of the mean you see, you lock away and toss the key
F Em Dm
But they're just loud mouth punks to me, I've scraped meaner off my shoe
[Verse 4]
Dm F G
Somewhere, I ain't saying, there's a hole that holds a judge
F Em Dm
The last one that I dug myself, and I must admit I was
Dm F G
Sad to lay him in it, but I did the best I could
F Em Dm
Once his Honor grows a conscience, well folks, that there just ain't no good
[Verse 5]
Dm F G
There's a pretty girl out there said, "Daddy, you stay cool tonight
F Em Dm
All I need from you is to come home and be here by my side
Dm F Gsus2
Say what you gotta say to shut their Bibles and their mouths
F Em Dm
If they was to tie a noose, they'd have to lay their Bibles down
[Instrumental]
Dm F G F Em Dm
Dm F Gsus2 F Em Dm (or riff 2)
[Verse 6]
Dm F G
I ain't here to save no souls, and even if I could
F Em Dm
I could never save enough to put back half the ones I took
Dm F G
So if they rest in torment, you can't say it's cause of me
F Em Dm
They'd long been bought and paid for like that fool's in Tennessee
[Chorus 2]
Dm F G
I used to have a wad of hundred dollar bills in the back pocket of my suit
F Em Dm
I had a .45 underneath my coat, and another one in my boot
Dm F G
I drove a big ole Cadillac, bought a new one anytime I pleased
F Em Dm
And I put more lawmen in the ground than Alabama put cottonseed
[Verse 7]
Dm F G
There's a pretty girl out there said, "Daddy, you stay cool tonight
F Em Dm
All I need from you is to come home and be here by my side
Dm F Gsus2
Say what you gotta say to shut their Bibles and their mouths
F Em Dm
If they was to tie a noose, they'd have to lay their Bibles down
[END]
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