I came to tell my story to all these young and eager minds 我是来告诉我的故事，所有的这些年轻的，渴望心灵

To look in their unspoiled faces and their curious bright eyes 来看看他们的未受污染的面孔和他们的好奇的明眸

Stories of corruption, crime and killing, yes it's true 腐败，犯罪和杀人的故事，是的这是真的

Greed and fixed elections, guns and drugs and whores and booze 贪婪和固定的选举中，枪支和毒品以及妓女和酒

   

It's been a while since I put on a suit of my own clothes 它已经有一段时间，因为我把我自己的一套衣服

And even longer since I cast my shadow on a church house door 甚至更长，因为我投我的影子在教堂门口的房子

They say every sin is deadly but I believe they may be wrong 他们说，每一个罪是致命的，但我相信他们可能是错的

I'm guilty of all seven and I don't feel too bad at all 我犯了所有七个，我不觉得太差

   

I used to have a wad of hundred dollar bills in the back pocket of my suit 我曾经有过的百元大钞一叠在我的西装后面的口袋

I had a .45 underneath my coat and another one in my boot 我有一个0.45我的外套下面，另一个在我的引导

I drove a big ole Cadillac, bought a new one anytime I pleased 我开着一个大的OLE凯迪拉克，买了一个新的只要我高兴

And I put more lawmen in the ground than Alabama put cottonseed 我把更多的执法官在地上比阿拉巴马把棉籽

   

I spent a few years on vacation, sanctioned by the state I mentioned 我花了数年休假，由我所提到的国家认可

But a man like me don't do no time too hard to come back from 但是一个人喜欢我不这样做没有时间太辛苦回来的

The meanest of the mean, I see you lock away and toss the key 均值的最卑鄙，我看你锁定路程，折腾的关键

But they're all just loud mouth punks to me, I've scraped meaner off my shoe 但他们都只是大声的嘴小混混给我，我更猛烈刮了我的鞋

   

Somewhere, I ain't saying, there's a hole that holds a judge 冥冥之中，我是不是说，有保存法官的孔

The last one that I dug myself 最后一个是我自己挖

And I must admit I was sad to lay him in it, but I did the best I could 我必须承认，我很伤心奠定了他在里面，但我没有尽我所能

Once his Honor grows a conscience, well folks, that there just ain't no good 一旦他的荣誉生长着一种良心，好乡亲，有等于没有好

   

There's a pretty girl out there said "Daddy, you stay cool tonight 有一个漂亮的女孩在那里说： “爸爸，你保持冷静，今晚

All I need from you is to come home and be here by my side 我只需要你是要回家，并在我的身边

Say what you gotta say to shut their Bibles and their mouths 说你爱说什么关他们的圣经和他们的嘴

If they was to tie a noose, they'd have to lay their Bibles down" 如果他们是为了打一个活结，他们不得不躺在自己的圣经降“

   

I ain't here to save no souls and even if I could 我是不是来拯救没有灵魂，即使我能

I could never save enough to put back half the ones I took 我从来没有存够钱放回一半的人我把

So if they rest in torment you can't say it's cause of me 因此，如果他们安息在折磨你不能说这是我的事业

They'd long been bought and paid for like that fool's in Tennessee 他们会早就买了，并像傻瓜在田纳西支付