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Intro

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  My terr-i-ble ways

  They got me in jail

  Where some did succeed

  I always did fail

  But I thought I was fine to wait for the day

  When I’d paid for my terrible ways

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  My terr-i-ble ways

  They came to and end

  When a mighty deluge freed the criminal men

  But I stayed in Mississippi

  and three souls I saved

  and so ended my terrible ways

Chorus

  Terrible ways, terrible ways

  sooner or later a criminal pays

  And I’ll never have enough, enough

  To pay this off

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Verse

  My terr-i-ble ways

  The govenor forgave

  On account of three souls and account of the wave

  That took my wife and baby and swept them away

  All ‘cause of my terrible ways

Chorus

  Terrible ways, terrible ways

  Sooner or later I know I’m going to pay

  And I’ll never have enough, enough

  To pay this off