In the gravel yard with a number for my name

Makin little rocks out of big rocks all day

Oh the work is mighty hard in the gravel yard

I’ll never be a free man so they say

Warden hear my plea listen now to me

I killed the man that I caught with my wife

You’d probably done the same so I am not to blame

Sentenced to the rest of my life

Chorus:

In the gravel yard….

In the driving rain with a ball and chain

My hammering’s a poor mournful sound

It sings a little song for the ones who done me wrong

That lie beneath the cold cold ground

Chorus: In the gravel Yard…

Repeat chorus…end