Age 21

Lord I'm down in Tupelo, Mississippi

Working on a prison farm

Lord I'm down in Tupelo, Mississippi

Working on a prison farm

Got three more years to be here

I'll be a full grown man, twenty one

Gave my youth to this coal pile

To pay for the wrong I've done

Gave my youth to this dirty coal pile

To pay for the wrong I've done

Got three more years to be here

Be a full grown man, age twenty one

I was born in the heart of the city

Raised by the mother's son

I was born in the heart of the city

Raised by the mother's son