Somebody better call the law We done took it outside, we’re about to brawl Ol’ boy done put his hands on a woman Where I come from, son, the next thing comin’ is a Ass whoopin’ in the parkin’ lot About to drop this fool right in front of the cops And I ain’t gonna run I’m proud of what I’ve done.
Yeah, read me my rights, put me in cuffs Take me downtown, barney lock me up And I’ll do my time and raise my right hand And I’ll tell them judge, I’d do it again
Well, I heard it through the grapevine Good daddy and a husband is a doin’ time Said his wife and his kids was in the house Ol’ boy broke in, man, it all went south When he dropped the hammer on his forty five Now he’s in the pen twenty five to life I hate to say but if it’d been me I’d have said
Read me my rights, put me in cuffs Take me downtown, barney lock me up I’ll do my time and raise my right hand And I’ll tell them judge that I’d do it again
If I have to put the law in my hands, yeah. Well, it’s bound to break ‘Cause I know right from wrong and if you cross that line, Boy, all I gotta say is… (All I gotta say, boy, is…)
Read me my rights, put me in cuffs Take me downtown, barney lock me up Lock me up And I’ll do my time and raise my right hand And I’ll tell them judge I’d do it again
You read me my rights, put me in cuffs Take me downtown, you’d better lock me up And I’ll do my time and raise my right hand And I’ll tell them judge that I’d do that shit again