99 Years and One Dark Day

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
Well the food is bad and the beds are hard
I spend all day breakin' rocks in the yard
There ain't no change, gonna stay that way
I got 99 years and one dark day
Well there ain't no singer gonna sing a song
and convince this warden that I ain't wrong
His mind's made up, gonna stay that way
I got 99 years and one dark day
I never learned to read, I never learned to write
My whole life's been one big fight
I never learned about the righteous way
I got 99 years and one dark day
I recall a time 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

Yeah, I got 99 years and one dark day