Nebraska

[Verse 1]

I saw her standing on her front lawn

Just a-twirling her baton

Me and her went for a ride, sir

And ten innocent people died

[Verse 2]

From the town of Lincoln, Nebraska

With a sawed-off .410 on my lap

Through the badlands of Wyoming

I killed everything in my path

[Verse 3]

I can't say that I'm sorry

For the things that we done

At least for a little while, sir

Me and her, we had us some fun

[Verse 4]

Now, the jury brought in a guilty verdict

And the judge, he sentenced me to death

Midnight in a prison storeroom

With leather straps across my chest

[Verse 5]

Sheriff, when the man pulls that switch, sir

And snaps my poor head back

You make sure my pretty baby

Is sittin' right there on my lap

[Verse 6]

They declared me unfit to live

Said into that great void my soul'd be hurled

They want to know why I did what I did

Well, sir, I guess there's just a meanness in this world