You Can Keep Your Nine Pound Hammer

You Can Keep Your Nine Pound Hammer
Writers: Pete Goble and Leroy Drumm (BrandyKeg Music/BMI)

There’s a cabin in the mountains, oh so many miles from here
They said their waitin’ for me, my old dad and mother dear
They don’t know I’m in a prison, livin’ in a six foot square
Well, these shoes of mine are walkin’, but I ain’t gettin’ anywhere

Chorus:
Take away these iron bars
And take back your suit of gray
I won’t need your nine pound hammer
If I ever get away

Break

At nine o’clock, the lights go out , and then there’s not a sound
Except the footsteps of the prison guard as he makes his rounds
But someday it will be different. Boys I pray it won’t be long
He’ll look into an empty cell, and find that I am gone

Chorus

Break

If you’re ever down in Nettieville, and want to call on me
It’s the big house on the corner, and the number’s 283
I got seven years to stay here. Then brother, I’ll be gone
I’m goin’ back to Mom and Dad, and the little mountain home

Chorus