[00:00.00]Cocaine Blues
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[00:01.20]Early one morning while making the rounds
[00:05.58]I took a shot of cocaine and I shot my woman down
[00:09.68]I went right home and I went to bed
[00:13.45]I stuck that loving 44 beneath my head
[00:17.46]Got up next morning and I grabbed that gun
[00:21.15]took a shot of cocaine and away I run
[00:24.53]Made a good run but I run too slow
[00:28.39]they overtook me down in Juarez Mexico
[00:32.41]Late in the hot joints taking the pills
[00:36.27]in walked the sheriff from Jericho Hill
[00:40.30]He said Willy Lee your name is not Jack Brown
[00:44.26]You're the dirty heck that shot your woman down
[00:48.01]Said yes oh yes my name is Willy Lee
[00:51.77]if you've got the warrant just aread it to me
[00:55.56]Shot her down because she made me sore
[00:59.49]I thought I was her daddy but she had five more
[01:03.57]When I was arrested I was dressed in black
[01:07.52]They put me on a train and they took me back
[01:11.32]Had no friend for to go my bail
[01:15.20]they slapped my dried up carcass in that country jail
[01:19.09]Early next morning bout a half past nine
[01:23.47]I spied the sheriff coming down the line
[01:27.24]Ah and he coughed as he cleared his throat
[01:30.60]He said come on you dirty heck into that district court
[01:34.91]Into the courtroom my trial began
[01:38.79]where I was handled by twelve honest men
[01:42.93]Just before the jury started out
[01:46.67]I saw the little judge commence to look about
[01:50.41]In about five minutes in walked the man
[01:54.20]holding the verdict in his right hand
[01:58.37]The verdict read in the first degree
[02:02.43]I hollered Lowdy Lowdy have a mercy on me
[02:05.93]The judge he smiled as he picked up his ben
[02:09.78]99 years in the Folsom pen
[02:13.61]99 years underneath that ground
[02:17.48]I can't forget the day I shot that bad bitch down
[02:21.55]Come on you've gotta listen unto me
[02:25.49]lay off that whiskey and let that cocaine be
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