[ with Charles Haney ]



Every son wants to follow in the footsteps of his dad

That's why my boy is in this cell next to me

Tonight I'll sing him a song about mama and home

For tomorrow he'll meet his destiny



So I'll sing him a song about mama and home

It's all that's kept him from losing his mind

I'll sing him a song about mama and home

But tonight I'll sing my last time



(In the morning at sunrise they're gonna take my boy out to hang

And the scaffold and thirteen steps they built near by my door

But I know that when the warden leads him past my cell

Yes he's gonna say papa sing me a song once more)



Papa sing me a song about mama and home

It's all that's kept me from losing my mind

Papa sing me a song about mama and home

But sing a song to die by this time

Papa sing me a song to die by this time