Well they're building a gallows outside my cell
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And the whole town's waitin' just to hear me yell
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Well they gave me some beans for my last meal
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But nobody asked me how I feel
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Well I sent for the governor and the whole dern bunch
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And I sent for the mayor but he's out to lunch
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Then the sheriff said: 'Boy I gonna watch you die, ya 19 minutes to go'
So I laughed in his face and I spit in his eye got
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Now hear comes the preacher for to save my soul
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And he's talking bout' burnin' but I'm so cold
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Now they're testin' the trap and it chills my spine
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And the trap and the rope aw they work just fine
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Well I'm waitin' for the pardon that'll set me free
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But this is for real so forget about me
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With my feet on the trap and my head on the noose
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Won't somebody come and cut me loose
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I can see the mountains I can see the skies
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And it's to dern pretty for a man that don't wanna die
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I can see the buzzards I can hear the crows
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And now I'm swingin' and here I go...