Strange Country

The water is like turpentine
 The meat I cannot chew
 The tax man only want my gold
 And robbed it from my boot
 The law man threw me in here
 Then tossed away the key
 If faith is mine don't let me die
 In this strange country
 Went first into the city
 No trouble did I seek
 Until the law men of the crown
 Bound cuffs of iron on me
 But there was no trouble I had done
 No slander did I speak
 Wide eyed I was caught walking down
 The wrong side of the street
 The water is like turpentine
 The meat I cannot chew
 The tax man only want my gold
 And robbed it from my boot
 The law man threw me in here
 The tossed away the key
 If faith is mine don't let me die
 In this strange country
 I long to cross the border line
 And smell the new born hay
 But in this dungeon I will lie
 Until I rot away
 The water is like turpentine
 The meat I cannot chew
 The tax man only want my gold
 And robbed it from my boot
 The law man threw me in here
 Then tossed away the key
 If faith is mine don't let me die
 In this strange country