Cocaine Blues [Live at Annex 14 NCO Club]

Early one mornin' while makin' the rounds
I took a shot of cocaine and shot my woman down
I went right home and I went to bed
I stuck that lovin' .44 beneath my head

Got up next mornin' and I grabbed that gun
Took a shot of cocaine and away I run
Made a good run but I run too slow
They overtook me down in Juarez, Mexico

Laid in the hot joint takin' the pill
In walked a sheriff from Jericho Hill
He said Willy Lee your name is not Jack Brown
You're the dirty hack that shot your woman down

I said, "Yes sir, my name is Willie Lee
If you've got a warrant just read it to me
Shot her down because she made me slow
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 friends for to go my bail
They slapped my dried up carcass in the county jail

Got up next morning about a half past nine
I spied a sheriff comin' down the line
Coughed and coughed as he cleared his throat
He said, "Come on you dirty hack into that district court"

Into the court room, my trial began
Where I was handled by twelve honest men
Just before the jury started out
I saw that little judge commence to look about

In about five minutes in walked a man
Holding the verdict in his right hand
The verdict read in the first degree
I hollered "Lordy Lordy have mercy on me"

The judge, he smiled as he picked up his pen
Ninety nine years in the Folsom pen
Ninety nine years underneath that ground
I can't forget the day I shot that bad bitch down

Come on, you gotta listen unto me
Lay off that whiskey and let that cocaine be

Thank you very much
We're gonna do that one for you
I'd like you to meet, Luther Perkins is guitarist
This man have been doing a wonderful job
There's also a performer Bob Wootton, Bob Wootton
The other two of The Tennessee Three have been what there for thirteen years
Marshall Grant and W.S. Holland