25 Minutes to Go

25 Minutes To Go - Christian Masser

Well they're building a gallows outside my cell

I got 25 minutes to go

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

I got 24 minutes to go

Well they gave me some beans for my last meal

23 minutes to go

But nobody asked me how I feel

22 minutes to go

Well I sent for the governor and the whole

Dern bunch 21 minutes to go

And I sent for the mayor

But he's out to lunch

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

18 minutes to go

Well here comes the preacher for to save my soul

With 13 minutes to go

And he's talking about burnin'

But I'm so cold

12 more minutes to go

Now they're testin' the trap and it chills my spine

11 more minutes to go

And the trap and the rope

All they work just fine

10 more minutes to go

Well I'm waitin' on the pardon

That'll set me free

With 9 more minutes to go

But this is for real so forget about me

8 more minutes to go

With my feet on the trap

And my head on the noose

5 more minutes to go

Won't somebody come and cut me loose

4 more minutes to go

I can see the mountains I can see the skies

3 more minutes to go

And it's to dern pretty for a man

Don't wanna die

2 more minutes to go

I can hear the buzzards I can hear the crows

1 more minute to go

And now I'm swingin' and here I go