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Verse 1:
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Early one morning while making the rounds
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Took a transfusion and I shot my woman down
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Went right home and I went to bed
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I stuck that loving .44 beneath my head
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Got up next morning and I grabbed that gun
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Took a transfusion and away I run
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Made a good run, but I run too slow
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They overtook me down in Juarez, Mexico
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Late in the hot joint, taking the pill
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In walked the sheriff from Jericho Hill
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He said, 'Willy Lee, your name is not Jack Brown
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You're the dirty hack that shot your woman down'
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Said, 'Yes, oh yes, my name is Willy Lee
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If you've got a warrant, just read it to me
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Shot her down because she made me slow
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I thought I was her daddy but she had five more'
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When I was arrested, I was dressed in black
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Put me on a train and they took me back
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Had no friends for to go my bail
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They slapped my dried-up carcass in that county jail
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Into the courtroom, my trial began
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Where I was handled by twelve honest men
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Just before the jury started out
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I saw that little judge commence to look about
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In about five minutes, in walked a man
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Holding the verdict in his right hand
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Verdict read 'in the first degree'
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I hollered, 'Lordy, Lordy, have mercy on me!'
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The judge he smiled as he picked up his pen
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Ninety-nine years in the San Quentin pen
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Ninety-nine years underneath that ground
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I can't forget the day I shot my woman down