Cocaine Blues - Las Taradas

Early one morning

While making the rounds

I took a shot of coc*ine

And I shot my woman down

I went right home and I went to bed

I stuck that loving 44 beneath my head

Got up next morning

And I grabbed that gun

Took a shot of coc*ine and away I run

Made a good run but I ran too slow

They overtook me down in juarez mexico

Late in the hot joints

Taking the pills

In walked the sheriff

From jericho hill

He said willy lee your

Name is not jack brown

You're the dirty heck

That shot your woman down

Said yes oh yes my

Name is willy lee

If you've got the warrant

Just a read it to me

Shot her down because

She made me sore

I thought I was her

Daddy but she had five more

When I was arrested

I was dressed in black

They put me on a train

And they took me back

Had no friend for to go my bail

They slapped my dried up

Carcass in that county jail

Early next morning bout

A half past nine

I spied the sheriff

Coming down the line

Ah and he coughed as

He cleared his throat

He said come on you dirty

Heck into that district court

Into the courtroom my trial began

Where I was handled

By twelve honest men

Just before the jury started out

I saw the little judge

Commence to look about

In about five minutes

In walked the man

Holding the verdict

In his right hand

The verdict read murder

In the first degree

I hollered lawdy lawdy

Have a mercy on me

The judge he smiled as

He picked up his pen

99 years in the folsom pen

99 years underneath that ground

I can't forget the day

I shot that bad b**ch down

Come on you've

Gotta listen unto me

Lay off that whiskey

And let that coc*ine be