Austin Prison

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They had a warrant out for me all over country

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and I was trying to beat two raps in Idaho,

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I was breaking into a school house sunday morning without warning

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when I saw the sheriff coming for me slow from down below


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His steel grey eyes were blazing when he saw me

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his hand was on his gun when he rode up

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he said you killed that woman I know you shot her why'd you do it?

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I'm taking you to Austin and I'm gonna lock you up


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Well he tied me with the plowline the next morning

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and he had me deep in Texas the next day

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A crazy screaming lynchmob waited in streets of Austin

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but he put me in the jailhouse and he threw the key away


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a jury found me guilty three months later

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weld evil men with murder in their eyes

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they even took me out and said now show us where you killed her

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and that wicked judge said now I hereby sentence you to die

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But here I am far away from Austin prison my friend the jailor handed me a file

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now all I want between me and there are alot of friendly people

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and miles and miles and miles and miles and miles and miles and miles