Where the Rooster Crows

Well I came up on the prairie, in the foot of the foothills
My daddy didn't do much, he just worked to pay the bills
My mama asked for nothing, never held a single rose
Won't somebody take me back to where the rooster crows

I wasn't much for schoolbooks and I ran a little wild
You wouldn't catch me acting like nobody's angel child
Trouble came and found me, ain't that how the story goes
I wish that I could just get back to where the rooster crows

I recall this one time when I set the barn on fire
I denied the whole damn thing
My daddy said shit happens then he beat my ass for lyin
It's a memory that still stings

I used to go up fishing in a creek that no one knows
I'd like to go back just once more to where the rooster crows

Well I can't forget that courtroom, and the bailiff's dirty grin
They held me up for all to see I wasn't born to win
The judge said 25 to life, right then my blood just froze
Now I know I'll never get back to where the rooster crows

If you think my story ends there, here's another verse
In the penitentiary things go from bad to worse
I suffer every morning when the sun begins to glow
Cause right outside these prison walls I can hear a rooster crow