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Introdução:
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See through the prison bars, Joe Bean,
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see where the gallows stand,
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just twenty short years from the day you were born,
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you died by the hangman's hand.
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Yes, they're hanging Joe Bean this morning,
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for a shooting that he never did,
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he killed 20 men, by the time he was 10,
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he was an unruly kid.
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Yes, they're hanging Joe Bean for the one shooting
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that Joe Bean never did.
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Well, Joe, your mother is at the Capitol,
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asking the governor for a stay.
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and it's hard on her, 'cause she knows where you were,
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on that particular day.
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You were working Joe Bean, hard working,
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robbing the Santa Fe.
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Well, the telegraph wires are humming,
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here, the governor's words come through.
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He said, "I can't set you free, it's not up to me,
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but there's much, Joe Bean, I'll do.
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I'll join your mother in extending birthday greetings to you, Happy Birthday, Joe Bean."