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I've had a sad, sad story friends, that I I don't like to tell |
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I had a home and family, when they locked me in this cell |
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I've been in here for eighteen years, a long time I know |
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But time don't mean a thing to me 'cause I've got life to go |
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When I went one night where the lights were bright to see what I could see |
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I met up with an old friend there, who just thought the world of me |
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He brought me drinks and he took me to every honky tonk in town |
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But words were said and now he's dead, I just had to bring him down |
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It's been a long time now since I've heard from my wife |
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I know I'd be there with her yet if I hadn't used the knife |
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Well, I'll bet that little girl of mine don't realize or know |
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Her daddy's been here eighteen years and still got life to go |
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I'll bet there's not one man outside that's spent this long in jail |
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I'll be in this prison 'till my body's just a shell |
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No, I can't be free to go and see the ones that I love so |
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'Cause I've been in here eighteen years and I've still got life to go |
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'Cause I've been in here eighteen years and I've still got life to go |