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Outlaws
Chorus:
Little Willie's my darling Little Willie's my dear, If you think I don't love her, Got a foolish idea.
i She wrote me one letter, She sent it by mail, She sent it in care Of the Washington jail.
1 Gonna build me one steeple On the mountain so high, So I can see Willie Passin' on by.
3 She said that she loved me Just to give my heart ease 5 Just as soon as my back was turned, She loved who she pleased.
* Only.
4   I rapped on her window, I knocked on her do', She gave me short answer, "Don't knock there no mo'."
5   Sittin' in the prison With my back to the wall, Old corn whisky
Was the cause of it all.
6  The judge said, "Stand up, George, And dry up your tears;
You're sentenced to Raleigh For twenty-two years."
7   If I had on' * listened. To what mother said, I'd 'a' been there today In her feather bed*
ADIEU TO THE STONE WALLS
/#. No. 647. Gant family, Austin, Texas, 1936.
A noticeably modern story of a convict's escape into the "free world"—to the freedom for which every prisoner longs, and about which some of the best prison ballads are made.