Little Sadie

Went out last night 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 forty-four smokeless under my head

Went out last night 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 forty-four smokeless under my head

I began to think what a deed I'd done

I grabbed my hat and I away to run

I made a good run but I ran too slow

They overtook me down in Jericho

Standing on a corner a ringing' my bell

Up stepped the sheriff from Thomasville

He said "Young man is your name Brown

Remember the night you blowed little Sadie down?"

"Oh yes sir, my name is Lee

I murdered Little Sadie in the first degree

First degree and second degree

If you've got any papers

will you serve them to me?"

Well they took me down town and they dressed me in black

They put me on a train and they sent me back

I had no one to go my bail

They crammed me back into the county jail

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 to wear the ball and the stripes