Penitentiary
I hid a batch in Frisco
I couldn't score a job
So I did the next best thing
And I learned how to rob
I took that train to Houston
But I couldn't get away
From the five and dime about the time
The constable would say
Come on down
To the Penitentiary
Oh, mommy, the law
Came crashing down on me
Playing stud in the evening
In solitary night
Leon has the cigarettes
And Capone has got the light
Now I'm shifting squares
With a man from Arkansas
He took my rook, oh lord
And my kings about to fall
Come on down
To the Penitentiary
Oh, mommy, the law
Came crashing down on me
I'm calling from a pay phone
Down around Lawrence bend
I got me a pardon, son
Gonna do it all again
Come on down
To the Penitentiary
Oh, mommy, the law
Came crashing down on me
Come on down
To the Penitentiary
Oh, mommy, the law
Came crashing down on me
Come on down
To the Penitentiary
Oh, mommy, the law
Came crashing down on me
I couldn't score a job
So I did the next best thing
And I learned how to rob
I took that train to Houston
But I couldn't get away
From the five and dime about the time
The constable would say
Come on down
To the Penitentiary
Oh, mommy, the law
Came crashing down on me
Playing stud in the evening
In solitary night
Leon has the cigarettes
And Capone has got the light
Now I'm shifting squares
With a man from Arkansas
He took my rook, oh lord
And my kings about to fall
Come on down
To the Penitentiary
Oh, mommy, the law
Came crashing down on me
I'm calling from a pay phone
Down around Lawrence bend
I got me a pardon, son
Gonna do it all again
Come on down
To the Penitentiary
Oh, mommy, the law
Came crashing down on me
Come on down
To the Penitentiary
Oh, mommy, the law
Came crashing down on me
Come on down
To the Penitentiary
Oh, mommy, the law
Came crashing down on me
Credits
Writer(s): William Zachary Appleby, Shane Alan Cody, Matthew Glen Myers, Katie Toupin
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