99 Years (And One Dark Day) Composer(s): Jesse Fuller Performer(s): Jesse Fuller
This here is a song about life in prison It's called 99 years and one dark day The ninety-nine years are the years you're in the prison And the one dark day is the day you die And it's too bad for you ......
I commited a crime many years ago I shot my woman with a forty-four She had another man, wasn't in my head I've got ninety-nine years and one dark day
I've been in prison twenty years or more Shot my woman with a forty-four I'll be here until my dyin' day I've got ninety-nine years and one dark day
Food is bad and the beds are hard I spend all day breakin' rocks in the yard Where there ain't no change, gonna stay that way I've got ninety-nine years and one dark day
Ain't no singer that can sing a song To convince this warden that I ain't wrong His mind's made up--it's gonna stay that way I've got ninety-nine years and one dark day
Never learned to read, never learned to write My whole life has been one big fight I never heard about the righteous way I've got ninety-nine years and one dark day
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