Went out last night, take a little round
 Met little sadie and I blowed her down
 Then [bad word] right home and went to bed
 With a forty-four smokeless under my head

 The girls all heard little sadie was dead
 They went home to be ragged in red
 [bad word] a slippin’ and a slidin’ down the street
 In their loose mother hubbards and their stocking feet

 Well I began to think what a deed I’d done
 Grabbed my hat and I started [bad word] 
 I made a [bad word] just a little too slow
 And they overtook me in jericho

 Standing on the corner reading a bill
 Up stepped the sheriff of thomasville
 Said young man is your name lee brown? 
 Remember the night you blowed sadie down? 

 Yes I said my name is lee
 I murdered little sadie in a first degree
 First degree and a second degree
 If ya got any papers, read ’em to me

 Took me downtown, dressed me in black
 Put me on a train and send me back
 Didn’t have no one to go on my bail
 Throw me back in the county jail

 Judge and the jury took their stand
 Judge had the papers in his hand
 Forty-one days and forty-one nights
 Forty-one years just to wear them stripes