Folk and Traditional Song Lyrics:
Kenny Wagners Surrender
Kenny Wagner's Surrender
Kenny Wagner's Surrender
I am sure you have heard my story
From "The Kenny Wagner Song":
How down in Mississippi
I took the road that's wrong.
It was down in Mississippi
Where I murdered my first man,
When the sheriff there at Leachville
For justice took his stand.
Then I went from Mississippi
To the state of Tennessee.
Two men went down before me
Ere they took my liberty.
Then I wandered through the country,
But I never could find rest,
Till I went to Texarkana,
Away out in the West.
Again I started drinking,
And again I pulled my gun
And within a single moment
The deadly work was done.
The sheriff was a woman,
But she got the drop on me.
I quit the game and surrendered,
Gave up my liberty.
DT #779
Laws E8
From Hudson, Folksongs of Mississippi
Collected from Elizabeth Reynolds
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