I met little Sadie and I shot her down

I went right home and I went to bed

A forty four pistol under my head

Got up the next mornin bout half past nine

The hacks and the buggies all standing in line

Gents and Gamblers all standing around

Carryin little Sadie to her buryin ground

Well I began to think of what a deed I’d done

Grabbed my hat and away I run

Made a good run but I run too slow

They overtook me in Jericho

I was standin on a corner readin a bill

When up stepped a sheriff from Thomasville

Said young man ain’t your name Brown

Remember the night you shot Sadie down

Well I said yes sir but my name is Lee

I shot little Sadie in the first degree

The first degree, second degree

If you got my papers won’t you read em to me

They took me down town and dressed me in black

They put me on a train and started me back

All the way to Thomasville jail

And I had no money for to go my bail

Well the judge and the jury took their stand

The Judge had the papers in his right hand

Forty one days and forty one nights

Forty one years to wear the ball and the stripes