I shot my woman with a forty four

I’ll be right here till my dyin day

I got ninety nine years and one dark day

Well the food is bad and the beds are hard

Spend all day breakin rocks in the yard

Well there ain’t no change it’s gonna stay that way

I got ninety nine years and one dark day

Ain’t no singer that can sing a song

Convince this warden that I ain’t wrong

His mind’s made up, it’s gonna stay that way

I got ninety nine years and one dark day

Didn’t learn to read I didn’t learn to write

And my whole life has been one big fight

I never heard about the righteous way

I got ninety nine years and one dark day

I committed a crime many years ago

I shot my woman with a forty four

I’ll be right here till my dyin day

I got ninety nine years and one dark day