ฟังเพลงNinety Nine

Ninety Nine - Burl Ives (伯尔·艾夫斯)

Oh my mama always told me better than to play with a loaded gun

If I'd have just listened to her she had never had a prisoner for a son

The picture's still in front of my eyes the echo in my ears

When the Jury said he's guilty and the Judge said ninety nine years

Oh for ninety nine years I'll watch the sunrise over that same old sea

Ninety nine years nothing but an empty cell for company

Yet there's not very much that stands between me and the freedom I hold dear

Just a thousand bars a big brick wall and a sentence of ninety nine years

I kissed my darling on her tender lips and they took me by the hand

I had a nice little ride on a ferry boat to the rock

Where the prison stands

The warden said as he locked the door I hope you'll like it here

Just make yourself a home you're gonna be with us ninety nine years

I've almost forgotten what my real name is been a number for so long

Making little bitty rocks out of great big rocks gets old

As the days wear on

But I'll do my best for ninety nine years just try to stay alive

Cause the governor said if I'd be good I'd get out in ninety five

Oh for ninety nine years I'll watch the sunrise over that same old sea

Ninety nine years nothing but an empty cell for company

Yet there's answer in much that stands between me and the freedom my hold dear

Just a thousand bars a big brick wall and a sentence of ninety nine years