[00:28.36]Betty told Dupree
[00:29.71]
[00:30.61]I wants me a diamond ring oh baby
[00:35.93]
[00:37.14]Betty told Dupree
[00:39.15]
[00:39.88]I wants me a diamond ring oh sugar
[00:45.21]
[00:45.87]Now listen mama
[00:47.99]Your daddy bring you most anything
[00:51.34]
[00:54.01]He had to kill a policeman
[00:56.15]
[00:57.03]And he wound a detective too oh sugar
[01:02.29]
[01:03.62]Killed a detective
[01:05.73]Wounded a policeman too oh babe
[01:10.86]
[01:11.49]See here mama what you caused me to do
[01:16.95]
[01:20.17]Hired him a taxi
[01:21.43]
[01:22.20]Said can't you drive me back
[01:23.87]To main say taxi
[01:26.44]
[01:28.29]Then he hired him a taxi
[01:29.84]
[01:30.84]Said carry me back to main oh baby
[01:35.57]
[01:36.34]I've done a hanging crime yet
[01:38.98]I don't never feel ashamed
[01:42.73]
[01:44.86]Standing there wondering
[01:45.85]
[01:47.04]Will a matchbox hold my clothes oh baby
[01:51.92]
[01:53.14]Standing there wondering
[01:54.68]
[01:55.19]Matchbox hold my clothes
[01:58.93]
[02:00.91]Said a trunk was too big
[02:02.72]
[02:03.31]To be bothered on the road
[02:06.54]
[02:09.73]Rested poor Dupree
[02:11.01]
[02:12.11]Placed him in the jail oh Lord
[02:16.60]
[02:17.61]Rested poor Dupree
[02:19.52]
[02:20.05]Placed him in the jail oh babe
[02:24.66]
[02:25.22]He had the mean old judge went
[02:27.99]And refuse to sign him any bail
[02:30.06]
[02:33.53]Wrote a letter to Betty
[02:34.58]
[02:35.94]And this is the way the letter read oh baby
[02:40.84]He wrote a letter to Betty
[02:42.79]
[02:43.73]And this is the way the letter read oh Lord
[02:48.26]
[02:48.80]Come home to your daddy I'm almost dead
[02:54.07]
[02:57.01]Betty went to the Jailer crying
[02:59.81]Mister Jailer please oh baby
[03:04.14]
[03:04.73]Betty went to the Jailer crying
[03:07.52]Jailer please oh Lord
[03:11.50]
[03:12.31]Please Mister Jailer
[03:13.66]
[03:14.28]Let me see my used-to-be