歌曲名 Samson and the Warden

歌手名 Loudon Wainwright III

Once I got locked up in a dirty old jail

And the coffee was cold and the cornbread was stale

And I didn't cry I tried to be brave

Till the warden tried to give me a haircut and a shave

Warden you can hold me for a year in your jail

But don't shave off my beard Don't cut my ponytail

All you really found was some stems and some seeds

I'll give you my earring and I'll give you my beads

I don't mind wearing one o your prison suits

I'll give you my bell-bottoms and my cowboy boots

Don't shave off my beard Don't cut off my hair

It took me two years to grow it and it just isn't fair

Listen to me warden won't you listen to me beg

Chop off a toe a foot or take a whole leg

I'm down on my knees man you're robbing my strength

Take it easy warden won't you leave me some length

I want a lawyer warden I want a priest

Oh take it easy warden leave the moustache at least

The warden didn't hear a single word that I said

He took off all the hair on my face and on my head

But one day someone's gonna come

And gonna put up my bail

And I'm gonna walk out of this dirty old jail

And the warden who's the reason I'm sheddin my tears

I'm gonna mail him in a snapshot in two or three years