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[Verse 1]
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Early one morning while making the rounds
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Took a transfusion and I shot my woman down
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Went right home and I went to bed
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I stuck that loving 44 beneath my head

[Verse 2]
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Got up next morning and I grabbed that gun
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Took a transfusion and away I run
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Made a good run, but I run too slow
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They overtook me down in Juarez, Mexico

[Verse 3]
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Laid in the hot joint, taking the pill
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In walked the sheriff from Jericho Hill
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He said, "Willy Lee, your name is not Jack Brown
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You're the dirty hack that shot your woman down"

[Verse 4]
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Said, "Yes, oh yes, my name is Willy Lee
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If you've got a warrant, just read it to me"
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Shot her down because she made me slow
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I thought I was her daddy, but she had five more

[Verse 5]
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When I was arrested, I was dressed in black
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Put me on a train and they took me back

Had no friends for to go my bail
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They slapped my dried-up carcass in that county jail

[Verse 6]
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Into the courtroom, my trial began
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Where I was handled by twelve honest men
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Just before the jury started out
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I saw that little judge commenced to look about

[Verse 7]
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In about five minutes, in walked the man
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Holding the verdict in his right hand
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Verdict read "in the first degree"
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I hollered, "Lordy, Lordy, have a mercy on me"

[Verse 8]
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The judge he smiled as he picked up his been
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Ninety-nine years in the San Quentin pen
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Ninety-nine years underneath that ground
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I can't forget the day I shot my woman down

[Outro]
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Come all you gotta listen unto me
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Lay off that liquor and let that transfusion be