Mississippi Lyrics

All my life I'd never been a lucky man
Saw the back of my daddy's hand
Lost your momma to the promised land

In my time I'd never had a thing that's mine
Till they handed me a baby fine
My little girl

There're only two things I know
I get ugly when the whiskey flows
Wanted you to know I love you so
And I would kill before I let you go

Taking off for Mississippi
Wearing someone else's name
Brought you in this world and I
can take you from it just the same

If you leave for Mississippi
I will beat you at your game
Brought you in this world and I
can take you from it just the same

My dear one
Heard you're whispering your plans to run
Off to marry some rich man's son
I bet he has never met a poor man's gun

In the darkness you could not see
The drunken devil instructed me
Two bullets in a crimson sea
Now I'm certain that you'll never be

Taking off for Mississippi
Wearing someone else's name
Brought you in this world and
can take you from it just the same

If you leave for Mississippi
I will beat you at your game
Brought you in this world and
can take you from it just the same

Grief and sin
When the righteousness of you sets in
And the blood in my veins begins
to ramble on

Now I know we can stand and judge the execution man
But we all have to make a trembling stand
before the sun

Maple tree
Can your branches carry me
Before the war, before the wine
Before I stole what wasn't mine
Can you bring my baby back to me