25 Minutes To Go

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Well, they‘re buildin the gallows outside my cell and I‘ve got 25 
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minutes to go. And the whole town‘s waitin just to hear me yell, I‘ve got 24 
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minutes to go. Well, they gave me some beans for my last meal with 23 minutes 
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to go, but nobody asked me how I feel, I‘ve got 22 minutes to go. Well, I 
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sent for the governor and the whole darn bunch with 21 minutes to go, and I 
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called up the mayor but he‘s out to lunch, I got 20 more minutes to go. 
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Then the sheriff said boy, I‘m gonna watch you die with 19 minutes to go, so 
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I laughed in his face and I spit in his eye with 18 minutes to go. Now here 
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comes the preacher for to save my soul with 13 minutes to go, and he‘s talkin 
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bout burnin but I‘m so cold, 12 more minutes to go. Well, they‘re testin the 
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trap and it chills my spine, 11 more minutes go, and the trap and the rope, 
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they work just fine, 10 more minutes to go. Well, I‘m waitin for the pardon 
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that‘ll set me free with 9 more minutes to go, but this ain‘t the movies, so 
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forget about me, 8 more minutes to go. With my feet on the trap and my head 
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in the noose, 5 more minutes to go. Won‘t somebody come and cut me loose? 4 
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more minutes to go. I can see the mountain I can see the sky, 3 more minutes 
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to go, and it‘s too darn pretty for a man to die, 2 more minutes to go. I can 
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see the buzzards, I can hear the crows, 1 more minute to go, and now I‘m 
 
swingin and here I goooooooooo...