July Jackson She was a wife with a couple of kids There's a story going round About what that woman did Somebody told me That she took her husband's life Said she did it with a smile And the twistin' of a knife July Jackson Seems it wasn't long ago That I saw the man she loved With a girl I didn't know A short time later That young girl she came up dead And it looked awful suspicious But that's not how the paper read July Jackson July Jackson Why just this mornin' They brought July Jackson down Where they started with their questions In front of this entire town Where I was standing I saw pretty July's face And she said she wasn't sorry That she put him in his place July Jackson She was a wife with a couple of kids There's a story going round About what that woman did July Jackson July Jackson July Jackson