The devil won’t let me go

(Verse) I’ve been doing it on my own since the day I turned 14.

Daddy said life as hell son and it don’t owe you a thing.

I started life out on the wrong foot, I put the law in the back of my mind.

I turned to the outlaw ways with a gun on my side.

Now I’ve got two strikes up against me and the third one is on the way.

If the law ever catches up, there be hell to pay.

(chorus)

I’m on a midnight train down in Jackson Mississippi and I’m losing my own soul.

I’ve never done time for my crime and the devil won’t let me go.

I’d like to have a piece of mine before it’s my time to go, but heavens harder to find than the border of Mexico.

(verse).

Now I’m on my way to the next town over another dollar another day.

Another dead man in the grave and no preacher to pray.

You can call it what you want you can say I’m living and sin, but I’ll put a bullet between your eyes before I ever see the pin.

(chorus)

now I’m on a midnight train down in Jackson Mississippi and I’m losing my own soul.

I’ve never done time for my crime and the devil won’t let me go.

I’d like to have a piece of mine before it’s my time to go, but heavens harder to find than the border of Mexico.

(outro)

life ain’t worth living unless a man is living free.

And i never hurt anyone until that man decides to take my freedom away from me.