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Take My Soul
The Dead Daisies
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Lordy please have mercy
I know that I've done wrong
These chains around my ankles
Cut my skin right from my bones
Blood and sweat is flowing
From my poor old aching back
Boss whip a-cracking
While I swing this old pickaxe
Can you please forgive me?
Lordy won't you take this poor boy home?
Let me tell you of my tale
I was drunk and out of mind
Fought a man about a woman
That's when I took his life
The mob was there to string me
From a hanging tree
Sheriff Well he locked me up
And threw away the key
I wish that I could take back
Everything that I've done wrong
I spend my dying days
Spend my dying days where I belong
I live my dying days
Singing the same old song
Take my soul
Take my soul
Take my soul
Take my soul
Twenty years have passed me
My skin is parched and dry
Inside these high forbidden walls
Living 'til I die
These hands are scarred and blistered
My body old and gray
Each night I get down on my knees
Hang my head and pray
Can you please forgive me?
Lordy won't you take this poor boy home?
I spend my dying days
Spend my dying days where I belong
I live my dying days
Singing the same old song
Take my soul
Take my soul
Take my soul
Take my soul