Cocaine Blues

Early one morning
 While makin' the rounds
 I took a shot of cocaine
 And I shot my baby down
 I shot her down then I went to bed
 I stuck that lovin'
 Forty-four beneath my head
 Woke up next morning and I grabbed that gun
 I took a shot of cocaine and away I run
 Made a good run but I run too slow
 The overtook me down in Juarez Mexico
 In the hot joint takin' the pill
 There walked the sheriff from Jericho Hill
 Willy Lee your name is not Jack Brown
 You're the dirty hack
 That shot your woman down
 Yes so my name's is Billy Lee
 If you've got a warrant
 You better read it to me
 I shot her down 'cause she made me sore
 I thought I was her daddy
 But she had five more
 When I was arrested I was dressed in black
 They threw me on a freight train
 And hauled me back
 Had no friend who'd go my bail
 They stuck my dried-up carcass
 In the county jail
 Early next morning 'round half past nine
 I saw the sheriff comin' down the line
 That sheriff yelled as he cleared his throat
 Said come on you dirty hackin'
 To the district court
 Into the courtroom my trial began
 Where I was judged by twelve honest men
 Yes as the jury started walkin' out
 I saw that little judge
 Commence to look about
 In about five minutes then walked a man
 Holding the verdict in his right hand
 The verdict read in the first degree
 I shouted Lordy Lordy
 Please have mercy on me
 The judge he smiled when he picked up his pen
 Ninety-nine years in the San Quentin Penn
 Ninety-nine years underneath that ground
 But I can't forget that day
 I shot that bad bitch down
 Come on you hotheads you listen to me
 Stay off that whiskey and let that cocaine be