Key: E
Introduction:
C
They're buildin' the gallows outside my cell
G
I got twenty-five minutes to go
G
And in twenty-five minutes I'll be in Hell
C
I got twenty-four minutes to go
C
Well, they give me some beans for my last meal
G
Twenty-three minutes to go
G
And you know, nobody asked me how I feel
C
I got twenty-two minutes to go
C
So, I wrote to the Governor, the whole damned bunch
G
Ahhh, twenty-one minutes to go
G
And I call up the Mayor, and he's out to lunch
C
I got twenty more minutes to go
C
Well, the Sheriff says, "Boy, I wanna watch you die"
G
Nineteen minutes to go
G
I laugh in his face and I spit in his eye
C
I got eighteen minutes to go
C
Well I call out to the Warden to hear my plea
G
Seventeen minute to go
G
He says, "Call me back in a week or three
C
You've got sixteen minutes to go."
C
Well, my lawyer says he's sorry he missed my case
G
Mmm, fifteen minutes to go
G
Yeah, well if you're so sorry, come up and take my place
C
I got fourteen minutes to go
C
Well, now here comes the padre to save my soul
G
With thirteen minutes to go
G
And he's talkin' about burnin', but I'm so damned cold
C
I got twelve more minutes to go
C
Now they're testin' the trap, it chills my spine
G
I got eleven minutes to go
G
'Cause the goddamned thing it works just fine
C
I got ten more minutes to go
C
I'm waitin' for the pardon, gonna set me free
G
With nine more minutes to go
G
But this ain't the movies, so to hell with me
C
I got eight more minutes to go
C
And now I'm climbin' up the ladder with a scaffold peg
G
With seven more minutes to go
G
I've better watch my step or else I'll break my leg
C
I got six more minutes to go
C
Yeah, with my feet on the trap and my head in the noose
G
Five more minutes to go
G
Well, c'mon somethin' and cut me loose
C
I got four more minutes to go
C
I can see the mountains. I see the sky
G
Three more minutes to go
G
And it's too damned pretty for a man to die
C
I got two more minutes to go
C
I can hear the buzzards, hear the crows
G
One more minute to go
G
And now I'm swingin' and here I go