I was standing in a crap game doing no harm,
baby!
When a copper grabbed me by my arm,
honey!
Took me down to the jailhouse door,
Place I never had been before,
I was run in.

[Chorus]
No more will I buy my sweet thing pork chops!
And hear her lily lips go flip flop!
The reason I'm in trouble 'bout my sweet thing
Is because this song to me she did sing:
"Goodbye, my honey, if you call it gone,
darling!
Goodbye, my honey, if you call it gone,
baby!
Goodbye, my honey, if you call it gone,
You've been a good old wagon
      but you done broke down;
bye-bye."

The judge asked me what had I done;
baby!
Said standing in a crap game getting my gun,
hot stuff!
The judge and jury said to me,
"You have killed three people in the first degree;
no bail."

(repeat chorus)