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Drive-By Truckers - Cottonseed Lyrics

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  • I came to tell my story to all these young and eager minds
  • To look in their unspoiled faces and their curious bright eyes
  • Stories of corruption, crime and killing, yes it's true
  • Greed and fixed elections, guns and drugs and whores and 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 used to have a wad of hundred dollar bills in the back pocket of my suit
  • I had a .45 underneath my coat and another one in my boot
  • I drove a big ole Cadillac, bought a new one anytime I pleased
  • And I put more lawmen in the ground than Alabama put cottonseed
  • 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 girl out there said "Daddy, you stay cool tonight
  • All I need from you is to come home and be here by my side
  • Say what you gotta say to shut their Bibles and their mouths
  • If they was to 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

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