I Don’t Mind Bein’ in Jail

I never turn back no more,

Lawd, I never turn back no more,

Every mail day I gets letter from my mother,

Say, “Son, son, come home.”

I been fallin’ ever since Mary was a baby,

An’ now she’s gone.

I’m nine hundred miles from home

An’ I can’t go home this way.

I wish I was a contractor’s son,