Ninety Nine Years

Ninety Nine Years By Jesse Fuller
Intro - Banjo
VERSE 1
I've been in this prison twenty years or more
I shot my woman with a 44
I'll be right here till my dyin' day
I got 99 years and one dark day
VERSE 2
Well the food is bad and the beds are hard
I spend all day breakin' rocks in the yard
Well there ain't no change, gonna stay that way
I got 99 years and one dark day
BREAK – Mandolin
VERSE 3
Ain't no singer that can sing a song
To convince that warden that I ain't wrong
His mind's made up, gonna stay that way
I got 99 years and one dark day
VERSE 4
I never learned to read, I never learned to write
My whole life's been one big fight
I never heard about the righteous way
I got 99 years and one dark day
BREAK – Fiddle
VERSE 5
I committed a crime many years ago
I shot my woman with a 44
I'll be right here till my dyin' day
I got 99 years and one dark day
I got 99 years and one dark day