Got no time to shoot the breeze
 got no time to blow, 
 Excuse me mister if you please
 I gotta go
 Born one morn on the day of the dead
 in a bombed out bungalow
 My mama kissed my cheek and said
 I gotta go
 I gotta go somewhere, I gotta go Chorus
 wastin time standin here
 I gotta go
 They put me in an orphanage
 just west of Tupelo
 I told 'em when I burnt that bridge
 I gotta go
 I stole a car, I got a gun
 I robbed the Hi De Ko
 I left Memphis on the run
 I gotta go
 Repeat chorus
 Instrumental
 Five card stud, dueces wild
 three Kings in a row
 I turned that diamond duece and smiled
 I gotta go.
 They tracked me dowm, they took my take
 And brother don't you know 
 I told them boys there's somethin strange
 I gotta go
 Cold steel up against my head
 they turned the lamps down low
 In case you didn't hear I said
 I gotta go
 These are your veery last words son
 say 'em nice and slow
 My last words on this planet were
 I gotta go
 repeat chorus twice.
 I gotta go