A CONDEMNED MAN

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Judge said, "Son, you better say your prayers
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Got a noose that fits you and some gallow stairs
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And by this time tomorrow you won't be alive
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Soon we'll be giving you 10,000 volts"
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And I said, "Make that twenty five"

The firing squad have got me right in their sights
Got me strapped up tightly with some dynamite
And I hear the executioner has got a brand new kink
He's giving me cyanide to breathe and strychnine to drink

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So dress me in chains and bind me in shackles
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The last thing you'll hear is my cold hearted cackle
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The last thing you'll see is my twisted leer
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I'm a condemned man and I'll never get out of here

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The searchlight's sweeping up from the prison tower
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The clock is creeping up to the midnight hour
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Outside they're wailing, "Repent, repent, repent, and believe"
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There's a telephone ringing but no chance of reprieve

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All you straight shooters and God fearing dolts
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Can be scared rigid by electrical volts
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But I can't be killed by any regular means
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Or I'll come back to haunt you and visit your dreams