In Search Of Little Sadie Lyrics

In Search Of Little Sadie

Went out last night just to take a little round

I get my little Sadie and I brought her down

I run right home and I went to bed

With a forty-four smokeless under my head.



I begin to think of what a deed I'd done

I grabbed my hat and I began to run

I made a good run but I ran too slow

They overtake me down in Jericho.



Standing on a corner as he's ringing my bell

Up stepped the sherrif of Thomasville

He said, "Young man, is you name Brown ?

Remember you blowed little Sadie down ?".



"Oh yes sir, my name is Lee

I murdered little Sadie in first degree"

"First degree and second degree

If you've got any papers, will you serve 'em to me ?".



Well they took me downtown and they dressed me in black

They put me on a train and they sent me back

I had no one for to go my bail

They crammed me back into the crowded jail

Oh yes they did.



The judge and the jury they took their stand

The judge had the papers in his right hand

Forty-one days, forty-one nights, forty-one years

To wear the ball and the stripes

Oh no.



I went out last night to take a little round

I met my little Sadie and I blowed her down

I run right home and I went to bed

With a forty-four smokeless under my head.