Badman Ballad-Cisco Houston

[ti:Badman Ballad] [ar:Cisco Houston] [al:The Very Best Of] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Badman Ballad - Cisco Houston [00:06.15]Early one evening I was rolling around [00:08.57]I was feeling kind of mean [00:09.98]I shot a deputy down [00:10.94] [00:11.73]Strolled along home [00:12.90]And I went to bed [00:13.88] [00:14.41]I laid me pistol up under my head [00:16.72] [00:17.31]He strolled on home [00:18.72]I took my time [00:20.11]And he went to bed [00:21.16] [00:21.72]Thought I'd sleep some [00:22.54] [00:23.38]Laid his pistol [00:24.21] [00:24.93]Big forty-four [00:26.14]Up under his head [00:26.96] [00:27.62]I keep it handy [00:28.61] [00:30.83]Early in the morning at the break of day [00:33.38]I figured it was time to make a getaway [00:35.38] [00:36.24]I was stepping right along [00:37.61]But I was stepping too slow [00:38.94]Got surrounded by a sheriff down in Mexico [00:41.31] [00:42.19]He was stepping right along [00:43.32]I was hot-footing it [00:44.76]But he was stepping too slow [00:45.82] [00:46.35]A hot day [00:46.94] [00:47.71]Got surrounded by a sheriff [00:48.85] [00:49.76]Boxed in [00:50.57]In Mexico [00:51.44] [00:52.00]I didn't even have a chance to see the country [00:53.92] [00:56.69]When I was arrested [00:57.78]I didn't have a dime [00:58.79] [00:59.46]The sheriff said [01:00.19]Son you're riding free this time [01:01.67] [01:02.32]Where you're going you won't need a cent [01:04.49] [01:05.02]'Cause the great state of [01:06.03]Texas gonna pay your rent [01:07.38] [01:08.06]'Cause where you're going [01:09.45]I think he means jail [01:11.03]You won't need a cent [01:12.04] [01:12.56]Well he knows I'm broke [01:13.86]'Cause the great state of Texas [01:14.95] [01:15.50]Um-hmmm [01:15.62] [01:16.62]Is gonna pay your rent [01:18.04]I'm mighty grateful [01:19.11] [01:21.25]Well I didn't have a key and [01:22.81]I didn't have a file [01:24.14]Naturally [01:24.94]I stayed around until my trial [01:26.31] [01:27.04]The judge was an old man ninety-three [01:29.28] [01:29.80]And I didn't like the way the jury looked at me [01:32.69]The judge was an old man [01:33.91] [01:34.60]Too old [01:35.24] [01:35.82]Ninety-three [01:36.45] [01:37.00]Entirely too old [01:37.89] [01:38.65]I didn't like the way the jury looked at me [01:42.34] [01:43.13]I think they were suspicious [01:44.01] [01:44.62]The judge and the jury they did agree [01:46.74] [01:47.32]They all said murder in the first degree [01:49.42] [01:50.20]The judge said [01:51.02]I don't know whether to hang you or not [01:52.93]But this here killing of deputy [01:54.05]Sheriffs has just naturally got to stop [01:55.52] [01:57.24]You've got a point there judge [01:58.25] [01:59.23]It was a most unsatisfactory trial [02:02.86]They gave me ninety-nine years on the hard rock pile [02:05.34] [02:06.08]Ninety and nine on the hard rock ground [02:08.45] [02:08.97]All I ever did was shoot a deputy down [02:11.08] [02:11.99]Ninety and nine [02:12.63] [02:13.22]It could have been life [02:14.46]On the hard rock ground [02:15.97]They might-a hung me [02:16.76] [02:17.53]And all he ever did [02:19.26] [02:20.13]Was shoot a deputy down [02:22.53]This whole thing has sure been a lesson to me