99 Years For One Dark Day-Robert Earl Keen

[ti:99 Years For One Dark Day]
[ar:Robert Earl Keen/Peter Rowan]
[al:Happy Prisoner: The Bluegrass Sessions]
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[00:00.00]99 Years For One Dark Day - Robert Earl Keen/Peter Rowan
[00:10.18]I've been in this prison twenty years or more
[00:15.34]I shot my woman with a 44
[00:20.04]I'll be right here till my dyin' day
[00:24.55]I got 99 years for one dark day
[00:29.63]Well the food is bad and the beds are hard
[00:34.68]I spend all day breakin' rocks in the yard
[00:39.58]Well there ain't no change gonna stay that way
[00:43.98]I got 99 years for one dark day
[01:11.19]Ain't no singer can sing a song
[01:16.03]Ain't no want I ain't wrong
[01:20.66]His mind's made up gonna stay that way
[01:25.01]I got 99 years for one dark day
[01:30.17]I never learned to read I never learned to write
[01:35.46]My whole life's been one big fight
[01:39.95]I never heard about the righteous way
[01:44.43]I got 99 years for one dark day
[02:28.53]I remember a time 40 years ago
[02:33.51]I shot my woman with a 44
[02:38.16]I'll be right here till my dyin' day
[02:42.68]I got 99 years for one dark day
[02:47.61]I got 99 years for one dark day