In search of little Sadie

Went out last night just to take a little round

I met my little Sadie and I brought her down

I ran right home and I went to bed

With a .44 smokeless under my head

I began to think what a deed I done

I grabbed my head and I began to run

I made a good run but I run too slow

They overtook me down in Jericho

Standin’ on the corner as he's ringin' my bell

Up stepped the sheriff of Thomasville

He says, "Young man is your name Brown?

Remember you blowed little Sadie down?"

"Oh, yes sir my name is Lee

I murdered little Sadie in first degree

First degree and second degree

If you got any papers

will you serve them to me."

Well they took me downtown and they dressed me in black

They put me on a train and they sent me back

I had no one for to go my bail

They crammed me back into the county jail

Oh yes they did

Now the judge and the jury they took their stand

The judge had the papers in his right hand

Forty-one days, forty-one nights

Forty-one years with the ball and stripes, oh no

Went out last night to take a little round

I met my little Sadie and I blowed her down

I run right home and I went to bed

A .44 smokeless under my head