I Killed Sally s Lover

Somebody get my shotgun

Somebody get my blade

Sally's been layin' with another man

And he's sleeping in my place

Somebody get my shotgun

Gonna shoot him sure as rain

You can run as fast as you want to boy

I'll kill you just the same

Somebody get my pocket blade

Gonna cut him don't you know

You can try to hide all you want to boy

There ain't nowhere to go

Somebody get my shotgun

Somebody get my blade

Sally's been layin' with another man

And he's sleeping in my place

Now Sally don't go thinkin'

That you got off so clean

I'd kill you too if I had the nerve

But I just ain't that mean

So I go and get my murder tools

I throw them in the lake

Gonna steal me an automobile

And drive so far away

Now I am a fugitive

I'm always on the run

Sally told the policeman

Exactly what I'd done

I went and got my shotgun

I went and got my blade

Killed poor Sally's lover

And I put him in the grave.

Now all you ramblin' fellas

You listen close to me

That woman gonna bring you pain

Your heart is gonna bleed

But it ain't worth the trouble

The sufferin' or the grief

A bleeding heart is better than the penitentiary

I killed Sally's lover

One dark and dreary day

Sally got another

And I got sent away

Somebody get my shotgun

Somebody get my blade

Sally's been laying with another man

And I set him in his grave