25 Minutes To Go

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     Well, they're buildin the 
gallows outside my cell and I've got
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minutes to go. And the whole town's 
waitin just to hear me yell, I've 
got 24
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minutes to go. Well, they gave me 
some beans for my last meal with 23 
minutes
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to go, but nobody asked me how I 
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feel, I've got 22 minutes to go. 
Well, I
sent for the governor and the whole 
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darn bunch with 21 minutes to go, 
and I
called up the mayor but he's out to 
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lunch, I got 20 more minutes to go.
Then the sheriff said boy, I'm gonna
 watch you die with 19 minutes to 
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go, so
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I laughed in his face and I spit in 
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his eye with 18 minutes to go. Now 
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here
comes the preacher for to save my 
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soul with 13 minutes to go, and he's
 talkin
bout burnin but I'm so cold, 12 more
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 minutes to go. Well, they're testin
 the
trap and it chills my spine, 11 more
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 minutes go, and the trap and the 
rope,
they work just fine, 10 more minutes
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 to go. Well, I'm waitin for the 
pardon
that'll set me free with 9 more 
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minutes to go, but this ain't the 
movies, so
forget about me, 8 more minutes to 
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go. With my feet on the trap and my 
head
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in the noose, 5 more minutes to go. 
Won't somebody come and cut me 
loose? 4
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more minutes to go. I can see the 
mountain I can see the sky, 3 more 
minutes
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to go, and it's too darn pretty for
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 a man to die, 2 more minutes to go.
 I can
see the buzzards, I can hear the 
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crows, 1 more minute to go, and now 
I'm