Women's Prison

[Verse 1]

I'm in a women's prison

With bars all around

I caught my darling cheating

That's when I shot him down

[Verse 2]

I caught him in a honky-tonk

With a girl I used to know

The door to my cell is open wide

And a voice cries out, "Oh no!"

[Verse 3]

The judge says I'm guilty

My sentence is to die

I know I've been forgiven

But the price of love is high

[Chorus 1]

There's a crowd outside screaming

"Let that murderer die!"

But above all their voices

I can hear my mama cry

I'm sitting here on death row

And Lord, I've lost my mind

For love, I've killed my darling

And for love, I'll lose my life

[Verse 4]

I can hear the warden coming

From the clinging of his keys

But when they come to get me

He'll have to drag me off my knees

[Verse 5]

The door to my cell swings open

It's time for me to go

The priest is reading my last rites

He says "dying's part of livin', you know"

[Chorus 2]

There's a crowd outside screaming

"Let that murderer fry!"

But above all their voices

You can hear my mama cry

[Verse 6]

Now they've strapped me in the chair

And covered up my eyes

And the last voice I hear on Earth

Is my mama's cry

[Outro]

Amazing grace, how sweet the sound

That saved a wretch like me

I once was lost but now am found

Was blind but now I see