Left My Gal in the Mountains

I Left My Gal in the Mountains - Hank Thompson/His Brazos Valley Boys

I left my gal in the mountains

I left her standing in the rain

I went down to the depot caught

Myself a midnight train

Made my way down to Georgia land

It in a gambling town

Got myself in trouble cause

I shot a county sheriff down

The jury read the verdict

Murder in the first degree

The judge said take

That prisoner to the penitentiary

They put the handcuffs on me

Put me on the pullman train

Took me to Atlanta tied me

With a ball and chain

I left my gal in the mountains

I left her standing all alone

Last night I dreamed

I got a letter saying baby

Won't you please come home

She told me that she loved me said

That she loved me true

Then I dreamed I wrote a letter saying

I'm a coming home to you

Then I awoke up this morning

Lyin' in Atlanta jail

No one here to love me

No one to go my bail

Prison bars all around me

The guard walking by my door

I'm so sad and lonely cause

I'll never see my gal no more

I'll never see my gal no more