Now, Matthew was a country boy   Until one day he found   That cheatin' folks was easier   Than plowin' his daddy's ground      He left his home back in Ohio   Bound for Chicago's town   He crossed Big Jim and turned his back   A bullet cut him down      And as he lay there dying   He said "Will I see my Ohio?"   In my reply I lied a bit   And said I did not know      Now, Jim McCall, he was meek and small   And to become a man   He'd have to build himself up tall   With fancy folks and land      He threw some stones at honest friends   And he got himself these things   His children left him and he sneered   "That's what my kindness brings"      And on the south side he got drunk   He asked me where to go   In my reply I lied a bit   And said I did not know      Yes, Miss Lazy Susan called me up   She heard I stole the show   In my reply I lied a bit   And said I did not know      In my reply I lied a bit   And said I did not know