Penitentiary

I hid a batch in Frisco

I couldn't score a job

So I did the next best thing

And I learned how to rob

I took that train to Houston

But I couldn't get away

From the five and dime about the time

The constable would say

Come on down

To the Penitentiary

Oh, mommy, the law

Came crashing down on me

Playing stud in the evening

In solitary night

Leon has the cigarettes

And Capone has got the light

Now I'm shifting squares

With a man from Arkansas

He took my rook, oh lord

And my kings about to fall

Come on down

To the Penitentiary

Oh, mommy, the law

Came crashing down on me

I'm calling from a pay phone

Down around Lawrence bend

I got me a pardon, son

Gonna do it all again

Come on down

To the Penitentiary

Oh, mommy, the law

Came crashing down on me

Come on down

To the Penitentiary

Oh, mommy, the law

Came crashing down on me

Come on down

To the Penitentiary

Oh, mommy, the law

Came crashing down on me