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Broke down by the levee way on out on river roadSarah heard their voices saw them driving by real slowThat's all she remembered, Doc said it would be some timeBefore she put together what they left her of her mindMe and brother Billy waited hoping for the bestSaying, "Lord have mercy on her soul, 'cause the devil took the rest"A deputy found those good old boys a little later on that nightThere was three of them in a Mercedes Benz and a couple of grams of whiteThe judge said he could not convict unless Sarah testifiedBut she never had the ghost of a chance, she took a handful of pills and she diedI begged that judge on bended knee, but he was not impressedHe said, "Lord have mercy on her soul, 'cause the devil took the rest"So Billy got his shotgun, I got fifty feet of ropeWe found those boys in a house uptown drinking wine and sniffing dopeWe took them out to the levee down by a place we all knew wellAnd we strung them up like poison fruit hanging from the trees of hellAnd I heard Billy say as the rope cut into their necks"Lord have mercy on your souls, 'cause the devil took the rest"Next morning we drove back to town down the middle of main streetWe loaded their bodies out the back of our truck, and we laid them at the judge's feetHe said, "Boys, you've done a terrible thing, and you have to understandWe've got to make you an example, can't take the law in your own hands"We just stood and stared at him, we had no regretsLetras de cancionesHe said, "Lord have mercy on your souls, 'cause the devil took the rest"Now here we stand together again, in the next room waits the chairThe warden and the judge, a preacher and us, and some newsmen starting to stareSomeone asks, "Ain't you got nothing to say, can you tell us how you feel?"Me, I look at Billy, and Billy looks at meAnd I say, "Me and my brother Billy, we just took care of our ownI ain't no judge and jury, but I know when that switch is thrownEvery one of you will be as guilty as us, and one day you'll be just as deadSo you all better hope God is merciful, 'cause I think he is fair insteadYou break God's law in the name of man's, and you call it righteousnessWell, Lord have mercy on your souls, 'cause the devil took the restI said Lord have mercy on your souls, and the devil take the rest"Broke down by the levee way on out on river roadSarah heard their voices saw them driving by real slowThat's all she remembered From Letras Mania