Jailbirds In the Bighouse

歌詞

They built a prison by the freeway Just to rub it in It's a gentle reminder Of the wages of sin The ones on the inside Are being paid their share There's a hundred stories For every man in there There's marks on the cell walls There's marks on the men One counts off the time lost The other counts till the end [Chorus] Jailbirds in the big house Jailbirds in the sky Singing of their innocence They'll sing by and by Jailbirds in the big house Jailbirds on a spree Some of them coulda looked like you Some of them used to look like me Teddy was a bad kid From a bad family tree He was voted most likely To commit a felony And that was just in grade school After that he disappeared They say he moved or he dropped out And he's faded with the years A red hand in the cookie jar A foot in potter's field His face was waiting for a number His fate was aching to be sealed [Chorus] Teddy had a girlfriend Who gave him a place to stay But he left with her TV set And a baby on the way And if you should run across him He could shorten your life With the butt of a pistol Or the edge of a knife He'll sing a song of the rock pile Mourning all he had All the luck in all the world And most of it was bad