Oh My Mama's in the cold cold ground my daddy he went away my sister married a gambling man and now I'm going astray
I sit here in this old jail and I do the best I can get to thinking 'bout the woman I love ran away with another man she ran away with another man poor boy she ran away with another man poor boy just thinking 'bout the woman I love she ran away with another man
I went out on the prairie and I sought to get(?) a train(?) (took a bag of mail was standing there)? (whole line is hard to hear) and I walked away (in the rain?)
they got their bloodhounds on me and they run me up a tree say come down from there my boy and go to the penitentiary
I said Mr. Judge Mr.Judge what you going to do to me? say the jury find you guilty my boy going to send you to the penitentiary
They took me to the railroad station a train come rolling by I looked in the window saw the woman I loved and I hung my head and cried I hung my head in shame poor boy I hung my head and cried
I looked in the window saw the woman I loved and I hung my head and cried