Songs:137 Executions (2833)
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137 Executions (& Not One Innocent Man)
©Rod MacDonald 2000 (Blue Flute Music/ASCAP)
Down in Texas it's a new century
they're leading the world in the first degree
Fidel Castro and China too
are executing fewer people than you
the Governor looked at the evidence
found not a single case of innocence
and signed those warrants with his own hand:
137 executions and not one innocent man.
Down in Texas they like to keep it short
get you a county lawyer who's a friend of the court
he's drunk at the trial, you appeal to the state
the judges say "sorry, son, it's too late.
If you weren't poor, if you were white
you'd had a better lawyer and got off light."
the judges say "son, you're just a link in the chain"
138 executions and not one innocent man.
Investigators toured death rows all around
one in seven convicted were eventually found
innocent of murder, wrongfully tried
how many men in Texas wrongfully died?
some people say we're too soft anyway
if we kill mistakenly that's the price you got to pay
and they ran that Governor for President
139 executions and not one innocent man.
Tell me how does it feel to have blood on your hands?
145 executions and not one innocent man.
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 | Protest 633 items |
 | Folk 4,447 items |
 | Thought Provoking 201 items |
 | Minor key 350 items |
 | Death 100 items |
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Categories: Protest | Folk | Thought provoking | Minor key | Death
