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Tom T Hall Miscellaneous A Week In A Country Jail (1969) One time I spent a week inside a little country jail And I don’t guess I’ll ever live it down I was sitting at a red light when these two men came and got me And said that I was speeding through their town Well they said tomorrow morning you can see the judge then go They let me call one person on the phone I thought that I’d be there over night so I just called my boss To tell him I’d be off but not for long Well they motioned me inside a cell with seven other guys One little barred up window in the rear My cellmates said if they had let me bring some money in We all would send the jailer for some beer Well I had to pay him double cause he was the man in charge And the jailer’s job was not the best in town Later on his wife brought hot bologna, eggs and gravy The first day I was there I turned it down Well next morning they just let us sleep but I was up real early Wondering when I’d get my release Later on we got more hot bologna, eggs and gravy And by now I wasn’t quite so hard to please Two days later when I thought that I had been forgotten The sheriff came in chewing on a straw He said where is the guy who thinks that this is Indianapolis I’d like to talk to him about the law Well I told him who I was and that I was working steady And I really should be getting on my way That part about me being who I was did not impress him He said the judge will be here any day The jailer had a wife and let me tell you she was awful But she brought that hot bologna every day And after seven days she got to looking so much better I asked her if she’d like to run away Well the next morning that old judge took every nickel that I had And he said son let this teach you not to race The jailer’s wife was smiling from the window as I left In thirty minutes I was out of state |
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