Chickasaw County Jail

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Howdy boys, my name is Charlie
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Born in Chickasaw County Jail
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My father, Albert, he was the sheriff
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He shot horse thieves, deer and quail

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I came west to make my fortune
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I ain't gonna work in your factory
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I married me an L.A. angel
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While I was pumping gasoline

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She was smart and she was pretty
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She may have been too smart for me
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She graduated with high honours
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In her class down at USC

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And she wrote poetry and painted
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She impressed this loud farm boy
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Her father, George, he owned the drugstore
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Her name it was Margery Malloy

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George Malloy was a pioneer boy
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And he was Irish to the bone
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He smoked a pipe and he took me fishing
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Taught me the words to 'Casey Jones'

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I sold his daughter on dreams of glory
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Cocktail parties and high-toned cars
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In the war I worked in movies
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Handing Oscars to the stars

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I built homes and baseball diamonds
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We had two daughters, we had two boys
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A swimming pool and four racehorses
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And I loved Margery Malloy

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I also loved the gaming tables
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Poker, craps, it's the same to me
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Investing other people's money
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Indicted on grand larceny

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So here I sit, I'm back in jail, boys
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Because I would not cop a plea
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Friends and relatives they vanished
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But she never turned on me

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I had pockets full of silver
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I spread around my wealth and joy
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I had it all, then I had nothing
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I finally lost Margery Malloy

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Hey, but I dealt cards to Hopalong Cassidy
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I played football and I ran track
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Forty-eight six in the quarter mile, boys
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Old Charlie Russell, he don't look back

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I could run and I could fight, boys
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I knocked out a peeping-tom
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I drank with stars and baseball heroes
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I ended up in an older folks home

[Outro]
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Howdy boys, my name is Charlie