Ninety-Nine Years





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I've been in prison twenty years or more
Shot my woman with a forty-four
I'll be here until my dyin' day
I've got ninety-nine years and one dark day

Food is bad and the beds are hard
I spend all day breakin' rocks in the yard
Where there ain't no change, gonna stay that way
I've got ninety-nine years and one dark day

Ain't no singer that can sing a song
To convince this warden that i ain't wrong
His mind's made up, it's gonna stay that way
I've got ninety-nine years and one dark day

Never learned to read, never learned to write
My whole life has been one big fight
I never heard about the righteous way
I've got ninety-nine years and one dark day