Early one mornin' while makin' the rounds   Took a transfusion and I shot my woman down   Went right home and I went to bed   I stuck that lovin' 44 beneath my head      Got up next mornin' and I grabbed that gun   Took a transfusion and away I run   Made a good run but I run too slow   They overtook me down in Juarez Mexico      Late in the hot joints takin' the pills   In walked the sheriff from Jericho Hill   He said, "Willy Lee your name is not Jack Brown   You're the dirty hack that shot your woman down"      Said, "Yes, oh yes my name is Willy Lee   If you've got a warrant just a read it to me"   Shot her down because she made me slow   I thought I was her daddy but she had five more      When I was arrested I was dressed in black   Put me on a train and they took me back   Had no friends for to go my bail   They slapped my dried up carcass in that country jail      Into the courtroom my trial began   Where I was handled by twelve honest men   Just before the jury started out   I saw that little judge commenced to look about      In about five minutes in walked the man   Holding the verdict in his right hand   Verdict read in the first degree   I hollered, "Lowdy, Lowdy have a mercy on me"      The judge he smiled as he picked up his been   Ninety-nine years in the San Quentin pen   Ninety-nine years underneath that ground   I can't forget the day I shot my woman down      Come on you guys and listen unto me   Lay off that liquor and let that transfusion be