Tonart: C minor
Verse 1
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Some work and slave for all
of their days
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And they'll do anything,
whatever it pays
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Some of us search and
we find other ways
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Me, I turned to thieving
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A little bit here and a little bit there
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Always some danger, but I didn't care
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As long as I felt I was getting my share,
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that's all I ever believed in.
From the day I was born,
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I understood that one way or another
I'd wind up no good.
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One night I got caught,
always knew that I would,
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the charges were robbery and murder.
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I broke into a house for
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An old man tried to stop me,
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poor misguided fool
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I killed him and left him in his own bloody pool
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I ran but was caught by
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the soldiers
Well they found me and beat
me and put me on trial
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It was all cut and dried,
it took a short while
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Have you anything to say?
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I only smiled and said, Judge,
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let's get this over.
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I was let from the courtroom
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I was taking it well
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With no hope of heaven
And no fear of hell
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Just darkness and silence forever.
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I awoke from a dream
in the middle of the night
When the door burst open
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and in streamed the light
A man was thrown in,
more dead than alive
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On his face I could see the blood glisten
I could tell at a glance
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he'd been beat black and blue
He lay there unconscious
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but then he'd come to
I said, tell me friend,
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what on earth did you do?
He said, I told them but
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they wouldn't listen
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Told him what I asked,
but he didn't speak again
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He just lay there quiet
in his blood and his pain
it was starting to rain
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And the guards come in and they got us
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Out to the courtyard in the cool morning air
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but why were they there?
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Two small -time losers,
what did they care?
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I'd have thought they'd
already forgotten
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Well,
the next thing I heard
was the governor's own voice
and the mob ceased their noise
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According to custom,
I'm giving you the choice
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Which of these men should I pardon?
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and cried out my name shouting,
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Give us Barabbas again and again.
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The gov ernor sighed and said,
My hands are clean.
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Give us Barabbas.
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But what kind of freedom
is this that is mine
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To spend all my days in search of a sign
To have my life saved
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and to nev er know why
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To owe such a debt to a stranger
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I will go with the wind
to a far distant land
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I will not cease my wandering
till I understand
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I'll tell every one,
every woman and man
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Of the strange things I have beheld here
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Of the strange things I have beheld here
Outro 1
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