George Thorogood & The Destroyers - I Washed My Hands In Muddy Waters lyrics

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I was born in Macon, Georgia

Like my dad, in the Macon jail

He said, Son, if you keep your hands clean

You won't hear them bloodhounds on your trail

But I fell in with bad companions

We robbed a man, in Tennessee

They caught me way up by Nashville

They locked me up and they threw away the key

Well, I washed my hands in muddy water

I washed my hands, but they wouldn't come clean

I tried to do like daddy told me

But I must've washed my hands in a muddy stream

I asked the jailer, When's my time up

He said, Son, we won't forget

But if you try to keep your hands clean

We might just make a good man of you yet

Oh, but I couldn't wait to serve my sentence

So I broke out of the Tennessee jail

I just crossed that line of Georgia

And I can hear them bloodhounds on my trail

Said, I washed my hands in muddy water

I washed my hands, but they wouldn't come clean

I tried to do like my daddy told me

But I must have washed my hands in a muddy stream

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I couldn't wait to serve my sentence

So I broke out of the Tennessee jail

I just crossed that line of Georgia

And I can hear them bloodhounds on my trail

Well, I washed my hands in muddy water

I washed my hands, but they wouldn't come clean

I tried to do like my daddy told me

But I must have washed my hands in a muddy stream

I tried to do like my daddy told me

But I must have washed my hands in a muddy stream