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Billy Austin
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Steve Earle
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My name is Billy Austin
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I'm Twenty-Nine years old
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I was born in Oklahoma
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Quarter Cherokee I'm told
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Don't remember Oklahoma
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Been so long since I left home
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Seems like I've always been in prison
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Like I've always been alone
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Didn't mean to hurt nobody
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Never thought I'd cross that line
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I held up a filling station
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Like I'd done a hundred times
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The kid done like I told him
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He lay face down on the floor
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guess I'll never know what made me
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Turn and walk back through that door
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The shot rang out like thunder
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My ears rang like a bell
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No one came runnin'
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So I called the cops myself
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Took their time to get there
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And I guess I could'a run
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I knew I should be feeling something
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But I never shed tear one
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I didn't even make the papers
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'Cause I only killed one man
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but my trial was over quickly
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And then the long hard wait began
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Court appointed lawyer
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Couldn't look me in the eye
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He just stood up and closed his briefcase
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When they sentenced me to die
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Now my waitin's over
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As the final hour drags by
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I ain't about to tell you
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That I don't deserve to die
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But there's twenty-seven men here
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Mostly black, brown and poor
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Most of em are guilty
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Who are you to say for sure?
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So when the preacher comes to get me
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And they shave off all my hair
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Could you take that long walk with me
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Knowing hell is waitin' there
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Could you pull that switch yourself sir
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With a sure and steady hand
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Could you still tell youself
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That you're better than I am
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My name is Billy Austin
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I'm twenty-nine years old
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I was born in Oklahoma
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Quarter Cherokee I'm told
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