[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
[00:11.73]Strolled along home
[00:12.90]And I went to bed
[00:14.41]I laid me pistol up under my head
[00:17.31]He strolled on home
[00:18.72]I took my time
[00:20.11]And he went to bed
[00:21.72]Thought I'd sleep some
[00:23.38]Laid his pistol
[00:24.93]Big forty-four
[00:26.14]Up under his head
[00:27.62]I keep it handy
[00:30.83]Early in the morning at the break of day
[00:33.38]I figured it was time to make a getaway
[00:36.24]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
[00:42.19]He was stepping right along
[00:43.32]I was hot-footing it
[00:44.76]But he was stepping too slow
[00:46.35]A hot day
[00:47.71]Got surrounded by a sheriff
[00:49.76]Boxed in
[00:50.57]In Mexico
[00:52.00]I didn't even have a chance to see the country
[00:56.69]When I was arrested
[00:57.78]I didn't have a dime
[00:59.46]The sheriff said
[01:00.19]Son you're riding free this time
[01:02.32]Where you're going you won't need a cent
[01:05.02]'Cause the great state of
[01:06.03]Texas gonna pay your rent
[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
[01:12.56]Well he knows I'm broke
[01:13.86]'Cause the great state of Texas
[01:15.50]Um-hmmm
[01:16.62]Is gonna pay your rent
[01:18.04]I'm mighty grateful
[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
[01:27.04]The judge was an old man ninety-three
[01:29.80]And I didn't like the way the jury looked at me
[01:32.69]The judge was an old man
[01:34.60]Too old
[01:35.82]Ninety-three
[01:37.00]Entirely too old
[01:38.65]I didn't like the way the jury looked at me
[01:43.13]I think they were suspicious
[01:44.62]The judge and the jury they did agree
[01:47.32]They all said murder in the first degree
[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
[01:57.24]You've got a point there judge
[01:59.23]It was a most unsatisfactory trial
[02:02.86]They gave me ninety-nine years on the hard rock pile
[02:06.08]Ninety and nine on the hard rock ground
[02:08.97]All I ever did was shoot a deputy down
[02:11.99]Ninety and nine
[02:13.22]It could have been life
[02:14.46]On the hard rock ground
[02:15.97]They might-a hung me
[02:17.53]And all he ever did
[02:20.13]Was shoot a deputy down
[02:22.53]This whole thing has sure been a lesson to me