[00:05.62]Went out last night to take a little round.
[00:07.96]I met my little Sadie and I brought her down.
[00:10.26]I ran right home and I went to bed
[00:12.36]With a forty-four smokeless under my head.
[00:15.38]
[00:31.83]Went out last night to take a little round.
[00:33.85]I met my little Sadie and I brought her down.
[00:36.07]I ran right home and I went to bed
[00:38.23]With a forty-four smokeless under my head.
[00:41.03]
[00:42.52]I began to think what a deed I'd done,
[00:44.54]I grabbed my hat and I began to run.
[00:46.76]I made a god run but I ran too slow;
[00:49.01]They overtook me down in Jericho
[00:51.24]
[00:54.31]Standing on a corner ringin' my bell,
[00:56.29]Up stepped the sheriff from Thomasville.
[00:58.48]He said "Young man is you name Brown?
[01:00.72]Remember the night you blowed Little Sadie down."
[01:04.05]
[01:05.45]"Oh, yes sir, my name is Lee.
[01:07.56]I murdered little Sadie in the first degree.
[01:09.75]First degree and second degree,
[01:11.98]If you've got any papers will you serve them to me?"
[01:14.37]
[01:23.88]Well they took me down town and they dressed me in black.
[01:25.89]They put me on a train and they brought me back.
[01:27.98]I had no one for to go my bail;
[01:30.24]They crammed me back into the county jail.
[01:32.62]
[01:34.62]The judge and the jury they took their stand.
[01:36.46]The judge had the papers in his right hand.
[01:38.68]Forty-one days, forty-one nights;
[01:41.00]Forty-one years to wear the ball and the stripes.
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