Song 2EaCm5PYjpwuIvRo3ZfEFe

Well, they're building a gallows outside my cell

And I've got 25 minutes to go

And the whole town's waiting just to hear me yell

I got 24 minutes to go

Well, they gave me some beans for my last meal

With 23 minutes to go

But nobody asked me how I feel

I got 22 minutes to go

Well, I sent for the Governor and the whole dern bunch

With 21 minutes to go

And I called up the mayor but he's out to lunch

I got 20 more minutes to go

Then the sheriff said, "Boy, I'm gonna watch you die"

With 19 minutes to go

So I laughed in his face and I spit in his eye

With 18 minutes to go

Now here comes the preacher for to save my soul

With 13 minutes to go

And he's talking 'bout burning, but I'm so cold

12 more minutes to go

Well, they're testing the trap and it chills my spine

11 more minutes to go

And the trap and the rope, aw, they work just fine

With ten more minutes to go

Well, I'm waiting on the pardon that'll set me free

With nine more minutes to go

But this ain't the movies, so forget about me

Eight more minutes to go

With my feet on the trap and my head in the noose

Five more minutes to go

Won't somebody come and cut me loose?

Seven more minutes to go

I can see the mountains I can see the skies

With three more minutes to go

And it's too dern pretty for a man to don't want to die

With two more minutes to go

I can see the buzzards, I can hear the crows

One more minute to go

And now I'm swinging and here I go