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