Cocaine Blues
Early one mornin' while makin' the roundsI took a shot of cocaine and shot my woman downI went right home and I went to bedI stuck that lovin' forty-four beneath my head.
Got up next mornin' and I grabbed that gunTook a shot of cocaine and away I runMade a good run but I run too slowThey overtook me down in Juarez Mexico.
Laid in the hot joint takin' the pillIn walked a sheriff from Jericho HillHe said Willy Lee your name is not Jack BrownYou're the dirty hack that shot your woman down.
I said yes sir my name is Willie LeeIf you've got a warrant just read it to meI shot her down cause she made me slowI thought I was her daddy but she had five more.
When I was arrested I was dressed in blackThey put me on a train and they took me backI had no friends for to go my bailThey slapped my dried up carcass in the county jail.
Early next morning about a half past nineI spied a sheriff comin' down the lineHe coughed and coughed as he cleared his throatHe said come on you dirty hack into that district court
Into the court room my trial beganWhere I was handled by twelve honest menBefore the jury started outI saw that little judge commence to look about.
In about five minutes in walked a manHolding the verdict in his right handThe verdict read in the first degreeI hollered Lordy Lordy have mercy on me
The judge he smiled as he picked up his penNinety nine years in the Folsom penNinety nine years underneath that groundI can't forget the day I shot that bad bitch downCome on you hawks and listen unto meLay off that whiskey and let that cocaine be