C
They're buildin' the gallows outside my cell
                             G
I got twenty-five minutes to go

G
And in twenty-five minutes I'll be in Hell
                             C
I got twenty-four minutes to go

C
Well, they give me some beans for my last meal
                        G
Twenty-three minutes to go

G
And you know, nobody asked me how I feel
                            C
I got twenty-two minutes to go

C
So, I wrote to the Governor, the whole damned bunch
                            G
Ahhh, twenty-one minutes to go

G
And I call up the Mayor, and he's out to lunch
                              C
I got twenty more minutes to go

C
Well, the Sheriff says, "Boy, I wanna watch you die"
                    G
Nineteen minutes to go

G
I laugh in his face and I spit in his eye
                          C
I got eighteen minutes to go

C
Well I call out to the Warden to hear my plea
                    G
Seventeen minute to go

G
He says, "Call me back in a week or three
                              C
You've got sixteen minutes to go."

C
Well, my lawyer says he's sorry he missed my case
                        G
Mmm, fifteen minutes to go

G
Yeah, well if you're so sorry, come up and take my place
                          C
I got fourteen minutes to go

C
Well, now here comes the padre to save my soul
                         G
With thirteen minutes to go

G
And he's talkin' about burnin', but I'm so damned cold
                             C
I got twelve more minutes to go

C
Now they're testin' the trap, it chills my spine
                        G
I got eleven minutes to go

G
'Cause the goddamned thing it works just fine
                          C
I got ten more minutes to go

C
I'm waitin' for the pardon, gonna set me free
                          G
With nine more minutes to go

G
But this ain't the movies, so to hell with me
                            C
I got eight more minutes to go

C
And now I'm climbin' up the ladder with a scaffold peg
                           G
With seven more minutes to go

G
I've better watch my step or else I'll break my leg
                          C
I got six more minutes to go

C
Yeah, with my feet on the trap and my head in the noose
                     G
Five more minutes to go

G
Well, c'mon somethin' and cut me loose
                           C
I got four more minutes to go

C
I can see the mountains. I see the sky
                      G
Three more minutes to go

G
And it's too damned pretty for a man to die
                          C
I got two more minutes to go

C
I can hear the buzzards, hear the crows
                   G
One more minute to go

G
And now I'm swingin' and here I go