UNTIL THE SUN RIsES

Dance, pretty girl, let's dance

Dance, pretty girl, I know

Dance, pretty girl, let's dance

Take my hand and when the sun rises we can go

Well I am just an innocent man

No scars on my heart and no blood on my hand

But no no no sat the jury telling the judge another tale

For the verdict called the shot and my girl cannot pay the bail

So what's it gonna be says the prosecutor with a greasy grin of hope

Is it the chair, or the chambers, or that old forsaken rope

Now Judge Jackson sips of water and says with a smile

The offender's hangin will be public on the first Friday of July

Dance, pretty girl, let's dance

Dance, pretty girl, I know

Dance, pretty girl, let's dance

Take my hand and when the sun rises we can go

Well they locked me up and threw my old life behind

And I know those children were so young but that magnum was not mine

But in this thought and confusion in my brain that swished and swirled

The only thought that did me good was one last dance with my girl

So I started making plots, started making plans

Gonna break out of this hell

So we can dance like that first sweet day I met you at Aunt Nancy's water well

Dance, pretty girl, let's dance

Dance, pretty girl, I know

Dance, pretty girl, let's dance

Take my hand and when the sun rises we can go

My cellmate Samuel said all you've gotta do is run

But when I leave this jail I don't give a hell

We're gonna dance until we see the sun

The moment came so I stuck like mud and ran

Out the wild gates into the fader a free and wanted man

Well the warren and the sheriff set the search and grabbed their guns

But by that time my girl and I were two steppin into the sun

Dance, pretty girl, let's dance

Dance, pretty girl, I know

Dance, pretty girl, let's dance

Take my hand and when the sun rises we can go

Dance, pretty girl, let's dance

Oh, let's dance, I know

Dance, pretty girl, let's dance