Joe Bean

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See through the prison bars
Joe Bean, see where the gallows 
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stand
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Just twenty short years from the day
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 you were born
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You died by the hangman's hand


[Verse]
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Yes, they're hanging Joe Bean this 
morning
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For a shooting that he never did
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He killed 20 men, by the time he 
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was 10, he was an unruly kid
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Yes, they're hanging Joe Bean for 
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the one shooting that Joe Bean 
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never did


[Verse]
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Well, Joe - your mother is at the 
Capitol
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Asking the governor for a stay
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And it's hard on her
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Because she knows where you were, 
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on that particular day
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You were working Joe Bean, hard 
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working, robbing the Santa Fe


[Verse]
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Well, the telegraph wires are 
humming
Here, the governor's words come 
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through
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He said, I can't set you free, it's
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 not up to me, but this much, 
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Joe Bean, I'll do
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I'll join your mother in extending
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 Birthday greetings to you