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Went out last night just to take a little round |
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I get my little Sadie and I brought her down |
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I run right home and I went to bed |
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With a forty-four smokeless under my head. |
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I begin to think of what a deed I'd done |
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I grabbed my hat and I began to run |
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I made a good run but I ran too slow |
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They overtake me down in Jericho. |
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Standing on a corner as he's ringing my bell |
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Up stepped the sherrif of Thomasville |
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He said, "Young man, is you name Brown ? |
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Remember you blowed little Sadie down ?". |
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"Oh yes sir, my name is Lee |
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I murdered little Sadie in first degree" |
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"First degree and second degree |
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If you've got any papers, will you serve 'em to me ?". |
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Well they took me downtown and they dressed me in black |
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They put me on a train and they sent me back |
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I had no one for to go my bail |
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They crammed me back into the crowded jail |
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Oh yes they did. |
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The judge and the jury they took their stand |
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The judge had the papers in his right hand |
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Forty-one days, forty-one nights, forty-one years |
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To wear the ball and the stripes |
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Oh no. |
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I went out last night to take a little round |
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I met my little Sadie and I blowed her down |
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I run right home and I went to bed |
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With a forty-four smokeless under my head. |
