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Gonna journey up the Hudson |
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Goin' on a lonesome trail |
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Gonna journey up the Hudson |
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Goin' on a lonesome trail |
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They can put me in the Death House |
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Or keep me in the Sing Sing Jail |
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I wrote and asked the warden |
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Why they called the jail the Sing Sing |
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I wrote and asked the warden |
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Why the called the jail the Sing Sing |
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He said "Stand here by this rock pile |
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And listen to them hammers ring" |
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He turns in the court house |
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Papers sellin' for fifty cents |
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He turns in the court house |
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Papers sellin' for fifty cents |
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All the judge tryin' to tell me |
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My lawyer's pleadin' self defense |
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The judge said Listen Bessie |
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Tell me why you killed your man |
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The judge said Listen Bessie |
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Tell me why you killed your man |
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I said Judge you ain't no woman |
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And you can't understand |
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You can send me up the river |
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Or send me to that mean old jail |
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You can send me up the river |
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Or send me to that mean old jail |
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I killed my man and I don't need no bail |