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Don't Tell My Mama Lyrics
The judge denied his last appeal.
His final hour became so real,
We sat one day, and talked out in the yard.
With execution in one week,
He struggled as he tried to speak.
Finally, he stopped, and swallowed hard.
Don't Tell My Mama
That I died in prison.
I broke a promise
I made years ago.
Don't Tell My Mama
That I died in prison.
It may be true,
But she don't need to know.
And then he said...
When I was just a little kid,
Shamed by what my Daddy did,
They locked him up
And threw away the key.
I promised Mama there that day,
Her little boy would never stray.
History would not repeat on me.
So tell her that I died out on the road...
On my way to her place,
I was finally comin' home.
But Don't Tell My My Mama
That I died in prison.
I broke a promise
I made years ago.
Don't Tell My Mama
That I died in prison.
It may be true...
But she don't need to know.
It'd break her heart
And she don't need to know.
His final hour became so real,
We sat one day, and talked out in the yard.
With execution in one week,
He struggled as he tried to speak.
Finally, he stopped, and swallowed hard.
That I died in prison.
I broke a promise
I made years ago.
Don't Tell My Mama
That I died in prison.
It may be true,
But she don't need to know.
Shamed by what my Daddy did,
They locked him up
And threw away the key.
I promised Mama there that day,
Her little boy would never stray.
History would not repeat on me.
On my way to her place,
I was finally comin' home.
That I died in prison.
I broke a promise
I made years ago.
Don't Tell My Mama
That I died in prison.
It may be true...
But she don't need to know.
It'd break her heart
And she don't need to know.
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