I wish I could go back to my river home where I was born but I"m stranded north in a New York jail and it"s a long, long way to Macon. Save me, don"t let me die, save me, please spare my life, save me, don"t let me die, save me, please spare my life.
I wish I"d never come up to Buffalo and done what I done, "cause I stabbed that man the State awarded me an execution, I took his life, they took my knife, it"s nearly over and done, at the break of day they gonna take me away, got to pay back what I"ve taken. Save me, don"t let me die, save me, please spare my life, save me, don"t let me die, save me, please spare my life.
I wish I"d never come up to Buffalo and done what I done, "cause I stabbed that man the State awarded me an execution, I took his life, they took my knife, it"s nearly over and done, at the break of day they gonna take me away, got to pay back what I"ve taken. Save me, don"t let me die, save me, please spare my life, save me, don"t let me die, save me, please spare my life.