Ninety Nine Years (and One Dark Day)✓

I've been in this prison twenty years or more

I shot my woman with a forty-four

I'll be right here till my dyin' day

I got ninety-nine years and one dark day

Well the food is bad and the beds are hard

I spend all day breakin' rocks in the yard

Well there ain't no change, gonna stay that way

I got ninety-nine years and one dark day

Ain't no singer that can sing a song

Convince that warden that I ain't wrong

His mind's made up, gonna stay that way

I got ninety-nine years and one dark day

I never learned to read, I never learned to write

My whole life's been one big fight

I never heard about the righteous way

I got ninety-nine years and one dark day

I remember a time many years ago

I shot my woman with a forty-four

I'll be right here till my dyin' day

I got ninety-nine years and one dark day

I got ninety-nine years and one dark day