I Washed My Hands in Muddy Water Songtext
von Stonewall Jackson

I was born in Macon, Georgia
Kept my dad in the Macon jail
Daddy said, "Son if you keep them hands clean
You won′t hear them bloodhounds on your trail"

But I fell in with bad companions
We robbed a man up in Tennessee
The sheriff caught me way up in Nashville
They locked me up and threw away the key

I washed my hands (washed my hands)
In muddy water (muddy water)
I washed my hands (washed my hands)
But they didn't come clean (they didn′t come clean)
Tried to do like Daddy told me (oh)
But I must have washed my hands in a muddy stream


Asked the jailor, (asked the jailor) "Jailor, when is my time up?" (when is my time up?)
He said, "Son, (he said son) we won't forget, (we won't forget)
An′ if you try, (if you try) just to keep your hands clean, (keep your hands clean)
We may make a good boy of you yet"

But I couldn′t wait (couldn't wait)
To do my sentence (do my sentence)
An′ I broke out (I broke out)
Of the Nashville jail (Nashville jail)
An' I just crossed that line of Georgia
And I can′t hear them bloodhounds on my trail

'Cause I washed my hands (washed my hands)
In muddy water (muddy water)
I washed my hands (washed my hands)
But they didn′t come clean (they didn't come clean)
Tried to do like Daddy told me (oh)
But I must have washed my hands in a muddy stream
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