Judge your honor, hear my plea
Before you open up your court
But I don't want no sympathy
'Cause I done cut my good man's throat
I caught him whith a trifling Jane
I warned him 'bout before
I had my knife and went insane
And the rest you oughtta know
Judge, judge, please mister judge,
Send me to the 'lectric chair
Judge, judge, good kind judge,
Help me go away from here
I wanna take a journey
To the devil down below
I done killed my man
I wanna reap just what I sow
So judge, judge, lordy lordy judge
Send me to the 'lectric chair
Judge, judge, hear me judge
Send me to the 'lectric chair
Judge, judge, good kind judge,
I loved him so dear
I cut him with my barlow
I kicked him in the side
I stood here laughing over him
While he wallowed 'round and died
Oh judge, judge, lordy judge
Send me to the 'lectric chair
Judge, judge, sweet mister judge
Send me to the 'lectric chair
Judge, judge, good kind judge
Burn me 'cause I don't care
I don't want no bumbling man
To throw my bail
I don't want to spend no
Ninety years in jail
So judge, judge, good kind judge
Send me to the 'lectric chair