I Gotta Go

Got no time to shoot the breeze

got no time to blow,

Excuse me mister if you please

I gotta go



Born one morn on the day of the dead

in a bombed out bungalow

My mama kissed my cheek and said

I gotta go



I gotta go somewhere, I gotta go Chorus

wastin time standin here

I gotta go



They put me in an orphanage

just west of Tupelo

I told 'em when I burnt that bridge

I gotta go



I stole a car, I got a gun

I robbed the Hi De Ko

I left Memphis on the run

I gotta go



Repeat chorus



Instrumental



Five card stud, dueces wild

three Kings in a row

I turned that diamond duece and smiled

I gotta go.



They tracked me dowm, they took my take

And brother don't you know

I told them boys there's somethin strange

I gotta go



Cold steel up against my head

they turned the lamps down low

In case you didn't hear I said

I gotta go



These are your veery last words son

say 'em nice and slow

My last words on this planet were

I gotta go



repeat chorus twice.

I gotta go