99 Years For One Dark Day

(album: Happy Prisoner: The Bluegrass Sessions - 2015)

I've been in this prison twenty years or more
I shot my woman with a 44
I'll be right here till my dying day
I got 99 years for one dark day

Well the food is bad and the beds are hard
I spend all day breaking rocks in the yard
Well there ain't no change, gonna stay that way
I got 99 years for one dark day

Ain't no singer that can sing a song
Ain't no one saying that I ain't wrong
His mind's made up, gonna stay that way
I got 99 years for one dark day

I never learned to read, I never learned to write
My whole life's been one big fight
I never heard about the righteous way
I got 99 years for one dark day

I remember a time many years ago
I shot my woman with a 44
I'll be right here till my dying day
I got 99 years for one dark day
I got 99 years for one dark day