Oh mama, I'm in fear for my life from the long arm of the law

Lawman has put an end to my running and I'm so far from my home

Oh mama, I can hear your crying you're so scared and all alone

Hangman is coming down from the gallows and I don't have very long



The jig is up the news is out they've finally found me

The renegade who had it made retrieved for a bounty

Never more to go astray

This will be the end today of the wanted man



Oh mama, I've been years on the lam and had a high price on my head

Lawman said get him dead or alive now it's for sure he'll see me dead

Dear mama, I can hear you crying you're so scared and all alone

Hangman is coming down from the gallows and I don't have very long



The jig is up, the news is out they finally found me

The renegade who had it made retrieved for a bounty

Never more to go astray

The judge'll have revenge today on the wanted man



Oh mama, I'm in fear for my life from the long arm of the law

Hangman is coming down from the gallows and I don't have very long



The jig is up, the news is out they finally found me

The renegade who had it made retrieved for a bounty

Never more to go astray

This'll be the end today of the wanted man, the wanted man



I don't want to go oh No

No, no, no, no



Oh mama, don't let him take me

Oh no, oh no, no, no, no, no, no