Cocaine Blues lyrics

Early one mornin' while makin' the rounds

I took a shot of cocaine and shot my woman down

I went right home and I went to bed

I stuck that lovin' forty-four beneath my head.

Got up next mornin' and I grabbed that gun

Took a shot of cocaine and away I run

Made a good run but I run too slow

They overtook me down in Juarez Mexico.

Laid in the hot joint takin' the pill

In walked a sheriff from Jericho Hill

He said Willy Lee your name is not Jack Brown

You're the dirty hack that shot your woman down.

I said yes sir my name is Willie Lee

If you've got a warrant just read it to me

I shot her down cause she made me slow

I thought I was her daddy but she had five more.

When I was arrested I was dressed in black

They put me on a train and they took me back

I had no friends for to go my bail

They slapped my dried up carcass in the county jail.

Early next morning about a half past nine

I spied a sheriff comin' down the line

He coughed and coughed as he cleared his throat

He said come on you dirty hack into that district court

Into the court room my trial began

Where I was handled by twelve honest men

Before the jury started out

I saw that little judge commence to look about.

In about five minutes in walked a man

Holding the verdict in his right hand

The verdict read in the first degree

I hollered Lordy Lordy have mercy on me

The judge he smiled as he picked up his pen

Ninety nine years in the Folsom pen

Ninety nine years underneath that ground

I can't forget the day I shot that bad bitch down

Come on you hawks and listen unto me

Lay off that whiskey and let that cocaine be