Mississippi Lyrics - The Secret Sisters

All my life I'd never been a lucky man 

Saw the back of my daddy's hand 

Lost your momma to the promised land 

In my time I'd never had a thing that's mine 

Till they handed me a baby fine 

My little girl 

There're only two things I know 

I get up me when the whisky flows 

Wanted you to know I love you so 

And I would kill before I let you go 

Taking off for Mississippi 

Wearing someone else's name 

Brought you in this world and I can take you from it just the same 

If you leave for Mississippi 

I will beat you at your game 

Brought you in this world and I can take you from it just the same 

My dear one 

Heard your whisper and your plans to run 

Off to marry someone rich man's son 

That he never met a poor man's girl 

In the darkness you could not see 

The drunken devil instructed me 

Two bullets in a crimson sea 

Now I'm certain that you'll never be 

Grave and sin 

When the righteousness of you sets in 

And the blood in my veins begins 

to ramble on 

Now I know we can stand and judge the execution man 

But we all have to make a trembling stand 

before the sun 

Maple tree 

Can your branches carry me 

Before the war, before the one 

Before I stole what wasn't mine 

Can you bring my baby back to me