Standard (EADGBE)

You were born by a railroad track

Never knew your ma and your pa ain't comin' back

Had to make your way the best you can

 But you didn't have to steal from another man

Chorus

Run boy run boy run boy run, they're gonna get you boy run boy run

They're gonna catch you, boy run boy run, run boy run boy run boy run

Think you're a man cause you're twenty one

Shot a man for nothin' and away you run

Wanted in most every state from here to Tennessee

If you're caught you'll do your runnin' hangin' from a tree

Chorus

Storm clouds lookin' down from the sky

And hangman's noose swingin' on a tree near by

The words on that tombstone that won't be read by you

Says his runnin's done at twenty one he won't see twenty two

Chorus