Oh day,
oh day, oh day.
Oh day,
oh day, oh day.
Locked up in jail
on a Wednesday.
My trial was tested on a Thursday.
Nobody to go my bed.
Lord, it's all almost done.
Lord, it's all
almost done.
Lord, it's all almost done.
And I ain't gonna see those pretty girls no more.
Take these stripes,
stripes from off my shoulder.
Take these chains,
chains from around my leg.
Well, these stripes,
no, they don't worry me.
But these chains,
these chains are gonna kill me dead.
Lord, it's all almost done.
Lord, it's all
almost done.
Lord, it's all almost done.
And I ain't gonna see those pretty girls no more.
Well, she whispered, she whispered to her mama.
She said, Mama,
I can't see how he's standing.
Cause he's only, he's only sweet sixteen, Lord.
But they're driving,
they're driving him like a man.
Lord, it's all almost done.
Lord, it's all
almost done.
Lord, it's all almost done.
And I ain't gonna see those pretty girls no more.
Well, I know,
I know that someday these gates,
these gates are gonna open wide.
And we'll be gone,
gone from here singing.
But the cap,
we're gonna leave him inside.
Lord, it's all almost done.
Lord, it's all almost done.
Lord, it's all almost done.
And I ain't gonna see those pretty girls no more.