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My mother called me to her bedside |
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These words she said to me |
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If you don't quit your rambling ways |
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They're gonna get you in the penitentiary |
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Gonna get you in the penitentiary poor boy |
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Gonna get you in the penitentiary |
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If you don't quit your reckless ways |
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They're gonna get you in the penitentiary |
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So I sat myself down in a gambling game |
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But I could not play my hand |
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Just thinking about that woman |
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I loveRun away with another man |
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Run away with another man, poor boy |
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Run away with another man |
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Just thinking about that woman |
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I loveRun away with another man |
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The cards came around the table, |
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LordAnd I had such a worried mind |
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My stack of gold dollars |
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I wasted away |
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And I lost about ninety nine |
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I lost about ninety nine poor boy |
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I lost about ninety nine |
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My stack of gold dollars |
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I wasted away |
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And I lost about ninety nine |
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It wasn't very long till |
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I seen him again |
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He ran away left her behind |
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And I laid him down with my old forty four |
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And the judge gave me ninety nine |
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The judge gave me ninety nine, poor boy |
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The judge gave me ninety nine |
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I laid a man down with my big forty four |
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And the judge gave me ninety nine |
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Well, the jury said |
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I had to pay |
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And the clerk he wrote it down |
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And the judge called out my number |
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Two sixes upside down |
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Two sixes upside down, poor boy |
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Two sixes upside down |
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The judge called out my number |