15 Years on the county line Enough to make a man nearly lose his mind Down in Arlington, Virginia where the law make us stay
Ball and chain never felt so real Walls of stone fifty bars of steel When the warden gives me pardon darlin' I'll be coming home your way
And I wish you could have seen it when the good Lord spun me round I should have known better than to think they could keep a good man down So please don't you worry Please don't you ever come see me
Leaving out of Texas for that eastern sunrise Well now, I was in a bad way Lord but not to my surprise
Judge in a cornfield tryin' a man They said let him hang in the white desert sand When the warden gives me pardon darlin' I'll be coming home your way
And I wish you could have seen it when the good Lord spun me round I should have known better than to think they could keep a good man down So please don't you worry Please don't you ever come see me
15 Years on the county line Enough to make a man nearly lose his mind Down in Arlington, Virginia where the law make us stay
Ball and chain never felt so real Walls of stone fifty bars of steel When the warden gives me pardon darlin' I'll be coming home your way
And I wish you could have seen it when the good Lord spun me round I should have known better than to think they could keep a good man down So please don't you worry Please don't you ever come see me