25 Minutes To Go

Lyrics for 25 Minutes To Go

They're buildin' the gallows outside my cell I got twenty five minutes to go And in twenty five minutes I'll be in Hell I got twenty four minutes to go Well, they gave me some beans for my last meal With twenty three minutes to go And you know nobody's asked me, oh, how I feel I got twenty two minutes to go So I wrote to the Governor and the whole damned bunch With twenty one minutes to go And I call up the Mayor, and you know, he's out to lunch With twenty more minutes to go And the Sheriff says, "Boy, I wanna watch you die" With nineteen minutes to go So I spit in his face and I kicked him in the eye With eighteen minutes to go Well, I call out to the Warden to take my plea With seventeen minutes to go He says, "Call me back in a week or three You've got sixteen minutes to go" Well, my lawyer says he's sorry that he missed my case Oh, fifteen minutes to go Well if you're so sorry, then come up and take my place With fourteen minutes to go Well, here comes the padre he's gonna set me free With thirteen minutes to go And he's talkin' about burnin', you know I feel so fucking cold With twelve more minutes to go Now they're testin' the trap and it chills my spine With eleven minutes to go 'Cause the goddamned thing seems to work just fine With ten more minutes to go I'm waitin' for the pardon, gonna set me free With nine more minutes to go But this ain't the movies, so to Hell with me With eight more minutes to go, ah Now I'm climbin up the ladder with a scaffold peg With seven more minutes to go I've better watch my step or I'll break my leg With six more minutes to go Yeah, my feet on the trap and my head in the noose I got five more minutes to go Well, c'mon someone and cut me loose I got four more minutes to go I can see the mountains, I can see the sky With three more minutes to go And it's too damned pretty for a man to wanna die With two more minutes to go I can hear the buzzards and I see the crows With one more minute to go And now I'm swingin' and here I go-o-o-o-o-o-o