 
Give me your gun and come peacefully 
I can drop you right here, or you can tell the court your story 
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Hang me high, hang me low 
They're gonna hang me in the morning 
Stay away from Jericho, all you rounders, 
I give you fair warning 
Entered my plea, called it self defense, 
a sober judge sittin' on the bench 
And i stared into 24 eyes of a hard-nosed Jericho jury 
They called it murder in the first degree, 
The judge said, son, stand and look at me 
Hang him - and may the lord have mercy 
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Thirteen steps to the scaffold high, 
the whole town's out just to watch me die 
And not one to shed a tear of mourning 
Please would you honor my last request, 
when they lay me down to rest 
Let the epitaph on my tombstone read this warning 
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