Well that judge he found me guilty of wrong doing

He sentenced me to hang in mid-july

He look down at me and said you are a ruin

If i were you i'd break right down and cry

But nobody seems to care that i ain't guilty

I never did the things they said i've done

But it looks like they're gonna to hang somebody

And it's lookin like i'm goin to be the one





Chorus,





(so just) send my body home on a freight train

And don't worry none that i don't go first class

Send my body home on a freight train

So everyone can see me when i pass

And don't worry none about no fancy funeral







It don't matter how they lay me down

See they bury me out by mama's apple tree

And just send my body back to my home town



Verse 2



My mama was one damn hard workin woman

She tried to raise us kids without a pa

The last thing that she said she was on her dying bed

Was boy don't get in trouble with the law

Well whenever my time comes to meet my maker

I'm going to try to do my very best

I'm going to stand and take it like a man

When they ask if i have one request



I'll say .....(repeat chorus)