Transfusion Blues Full Lyrics
[00:02.68] Early one mornin' while makin' the rounds
[00:07.02] Took a transfusion and I shot my woman down
[00:11.32] Went right home and I went to bed
[00:14.93] I stuck that lovin' .44 beneath my head
[00:19.78] Got up next mornin' and I grabbed that gun
[00:23.73] Took a transfusion and away I run
[00:28.00] Made a good run but I run too slow
[00:31.72] They overtook me down in Juarez, Mexico
[00:36.43] Late in the hot joints takin' the pills
[00:40.58] In walked the sheriff from Jericho Hill
[00:44.27] He said "Willy Lee, your name is not Jack Brown
[00:48.75] You're the dirty hack that shot your woman down"
[00:53.19] Said, "Yes, oh yes, my name is Willy Lee
[00:57.03] If you've got a warrant just-a read it to me
[01:01.57] Shot her down because she made me slow
[01:05.26] I thought I was her daddy but she had five more"
[01:09.85] When I was arrested I was dressed in black
[01:13.73] Put me on a train and they took me back
[01:18.35] Had no friends for to go my bail
[01:21.94] They slapped my dried up carcass in that county jail
[01:27.00] Into the courtroom my trial began
[01:31.16] Where I was handled by twelve honest men
[01:35.47] Just before the jury started out
[01:39.01] I saw the little judge commenced to look about
[01:43.78] In about five minutes in walked the man
[01:48.05] Holding the verdict in his right hand
[01:51.91] Verdict read in the first degree
[01:56.03] I hollered, "Lowdy, Lowdy have a mercy on me"
[02:00.61] The judge he smiled as he picked up his pen
[02:04.77] 99 years in the San Quentin pen
[02:09.29] 99 years underneath that ground
[02:13.09] I can't forget the day I shot my woman down
[02:17.89] Come on you guy and listen unto me
[02:21.92] Lay off that liquor and let that transfusion be
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