Judge you wanna hear my plea
   Before you open up your court
   But I don't want no sympathy
   'Cause I done cut my good man's throat
   I caught him whith a trifling Jane
   I warned him 'bout before
   I had my knife and went insane
   And the rest you ought to know
   Judge, judge, please mister judge,
   Send me to the 'lectric chair
   Judge, judge, good mister judge,
   Let me go away from here
   I wanna take a journey
   To the devil down below
   I done killed my man
   I wanna reap just what I sow
   Oh judge, judge, lordy lordy judge
   Send me to the 'lectric chair
   Judge, judge, hear me judge
   Send me to the 'lectric chair
   I love him so dear
   I cut him with my barlow (?)
   I kicked him in the side
   I stood here laughing o'r him
   While he wallowed around and died
   Oh judge, judge, lordy judge
   Send me to the 'lectric chair
   Judge, judge, sweet mister judge
   Send me to the 'lectric chair
   Judge, judge, good kind judge
   Burn me 'cause I don't care
   I don't want no one good mayor
   To go my bail
   I don't want to spend no
   Ninety-nine years in jail
   So judge, judge, good kind judge
   Send me to the 'lectric chair