Penetentiary Blues

Penitentiary Blues - Lightnin' Hopkins

Lyrics by：Lightnin' Hopkins

Composed by：Sam Hopkins

Penitentiary Blues

Mmmm big bad yes here I come

Mmmm oh lord have mercy

Big bad yes here I come

You know I'm gonna do time for another man

When there hasn't been a thing poor lightnin' done

This here oughta been on bread

19 and 10

Bud Russell drove pretty women just like you did

Ugly men I'm big bad

Oh lord is here I come

Fiendin' to do time for another man

And ain't nothin' poor lightnin' done

Where your vesion

Yeah you know my mama called me

I answered mam'

See said you're tired of working

And I said mama yes I am

Papa called me

I answered sir

He said son if you're tired of working

When they hear you going stay there

I couldn't

No I just couldn't hear myself

You know that a man can't help but feel bad

When he done time for someone else

You better watch it all the time