All rise! Judge, your Honour, hear my plea Before you open up your court I don't want no sympathy 'Cause I done cut my good man's throat I caught him with a trifling Jane I warned him 'bout before I had my knife and went insane And the rest you ought to know Judge, Judge, please Mister Judge, Judge, Judge, good Mister Judge, Let me go away from here I wanna take a journey To the devil down below I done killed my man I wanna reap just what I sow Judge, Judge, good Mister Judge Judge, Judge, oh Lordy Judge I love him so dear I cut him with my barlow I kicked him in the side I stood here laughing o'r him While he wallowed around and died Oh Judge, Judge, good Mister Judge Judge, Judge, sweet Mister Judge Judge, Judge, good kind Judge Burn me, I don't care I don't want no one good mayor To go my bail I don't want to spend no Ninety-nine years here in jail Oh Judge, Judge, sweet Mister Judge Judge, Judge, good kind Judge