Cottonseed

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I [A]came to tell my story to all these [G]young and eager [D]minds
To [G]look in their unspoiled faces and their curious bright [A]eyes
[A]Stories of corruption, crime and [G]killing, yes it's [D]true
[G]Greed and fixed elections, guns and drugs and whores and [A]booze

It's been a while since I put on a suit of my own clothes
And even longer since I cast my shadow on a church house door
They say every sin is deadly but I believe they may be wrong
I'm guilty of all seven and I don't feel too bad at all

I [D]used to have a wad of hundred dollar bills in the back pocket of my suit
I had a .[G]45 underneath my coat and another one in my [A]boot
I [D]drove a big ole Cadillac, bought a new one anytime I pleased
And I [G]put more lawmen in the ground than Alabama put cotton[A]seed

I spent a few years on vacation, sanctioned by the state I mentioned
But a man like me don't do no time too hard to come back from
The meanest of the mean, I see you lock away and toss the key
But they're all just loud mouth punks to me, I've scraped meaner off my shoe

Somewhere, I ain't saying, there's a hole that holds a judge
The last one that I dug myself and I must admit I was
Sad to lay him in it, but I did the best I could
Once his Honor grows a conscience, well folks, that there just ain't no good

There's a pretty [G]girl out there said "Daddy, you stay cool to[A]night
[G]All I need from you is to come home and be here by my [A]side
Say [G]what you gotta say to shut their Bibles and their [A]mouths
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If they was t[A]o tie a noose, they'd have to lay their Bibles down"

I ain't here to save no souls and even if I could
I could never save enough to put back half the ones I took
So if they rest in torment you can't say it's cause of me
They'd long been bought and paid for like that fool's in Tennessee