| Went out one night gonna make a little round
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| Met Little Sadie and I shot her down
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| Went back home, and I got her in the bed
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| Forty-four pistol under my head
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| Wake up next morning, about half past nine
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| The hacks and the buggies all standin' in line
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| Gents and the gamblers standin' around
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| Taking Little Saddie to the burial ground
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| Then Im uh gonna thinka bouta deed I’d done
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| I grabbed my hat and then away I run
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| Made a good run, just a little too slow
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| They overtook me in Jericho
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| Well I was standing on the corner just reading the bill
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| Up come the sheriff from Thomasville
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| Said young man ain’t your name Brown
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| Remember the night you shot Sadie down
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| I said yes sir my name is Lee
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| I murdered Little Sadie in the first degree
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| In First degree, And the second degree
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| Ya Got any papers, wont ya read them to me
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| Well they took me down and they dressed me in black
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| and they Put me on the train, and they strated me back
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| and they grabbed me back in that thomasville jail
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| Had no money cant make no bail
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| Well the judge and jury they took their stand
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| The judge had the papers in his right hand
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| Forty-one days, forty-one nights
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| Forty-one years to wear ball and stripes |