The Man in Black says...

jimmychung

Active member
..fuck off!

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I love this man.
 
“I'd like to wear a rainbow every day, and tell the world that everything is o.k. But I'll try to carry off a little darkness on my back. Until things are brighter, I'm the Man in Black.”
 
Early one morning while making the rounds

I took a shot of cocaine and i shot my woman down

I went right home and I went to bed

I stuck that lovin' .44 beneath my head

Got up next morning and I grabbed that gun

Took a shot of cocaine and away i run

Made a good run but I run too slow

They overtook me down in Warren, Mexico

Laid in the hot joint takin' the pill

In walks a sheriff from Jericho Hills

He says Willie Lee your name is not Jack Brown

You're the dirty hack that shot your woman down

Oh yes oh yes my name is Willie Lee

If youu've got a warrant just a read it to me

Shot her down because she made me sore

I thought I was her daddy but she had five more

When I was arrested I was dressed in black

They put me on a train and they took me back

Had no friends for to post my bail

They slapped my dried up carcass in the county jail

Early next morning not a half past nine

I saw a sheriff coming down the line

He handcuffed me as he cleared his throat

He said come on you dirty hack into that distrcit court

Into the courtroom my trial began

Where I was handled by twelve honest men

Just before the jury started out

I saw that little judge commence to look about

In about five minutes in walked a man

Holding the verdict in his right hand

The verdict read in the first degree

I hollered Lordy Lordy have mercy on me!

The judge he smiled as he picked up his pen

99 years in the Folsom pen

99 years underneath that ground

I can't forget the day I shot that bad bitch down

Come on you gotta listen on to me

Lay off that whiskey, and let that cocaine be!
 
Well, you wonder why I always dress in black,

Why you never see bright colors on my back,

And why does my appearance seem to have a somber tone.

Well, there's a reason for the things that I have on.

I wear the black for the poor and the beaten down,

Livin' in the hopeless, hungry side of town,

I wear it for the prisoner who has long paid for his crime,

But is there because he's a victim of the times.

I wear the black for those who never read,

Or listened to the words that Jesus said,

About the road to happiness through love and charity,

Why, you'd think He's talking straight to you and me.

Well, we're doin' mighty fine, I do suppose,

In our streak of lightnin' cars and fancy clothes,

But just so we're reminded of the ones who are held back,

Up front there ought 'a be a Man In Black.

I wear it for the sick and lonely old,

For the reckless ones whose bad trip left them cold,

I wear the black in mournin' for the lives that could have been,

Each week we lose a hundred fine young men.

And, I wear it for the thousands who have died,

Believen' that the Lord was on their side,

I wear it for another hundred thousand who have died,

Believen' that we all were on their side.

Well, there's things that never will be right I know,

And things need changin' everywhere you go,

But 'til we start to make a move to make a few things right,

You'll never see me wear a suit of white.

Ah, I'd love to wear a rainbow every day,

And tell the world that everything's OK,

But I'll try to carry off a little darkness on my back,

'Till things are brighter, I'm the Man In Black.

 
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