More songs by Bruce Springsteen
Description
Nebraska '82: Expanded Edition
12- String Guitar: Larry Campbell
Vocal, Harmonica, Acoustic Guitar, Associated Performer, Lyricist, Composer: Bruce Springsteen
Celeste: Charlie Giordano
Mixing Engineer, Recording Engineer: Rob Lebret
Recording Engineer: Monty Carlo
Mastering Engineer: Brian Lee
Mastering Engineer: Bob Jackson
Lyrics and translation
Original
I saw her standing on her front lawn.
Just a-twirling her baton.
Me and her went for a ride, sir.
And ten innocent people died.
From the town of
Lincoln, Nebraska.
With a sawed-off.
410 on my lap.
Through the badlands of Wyoming.
I killed everything in my path.
I can't say
I'm sorry.
For the things that we done.
At least for a little while, sir.
Me and her, we had us some fun.
Now the jury brought in a guilty verdict.
And the judge, he sentenced me to death.
Midnight in the prison store room.
Leather straps across my chest.
Sheriff, when the man pulls that switch, sir.
And snaps my poor neck back.
You make sure my pretty baby's sittin' right there on my lap.
Well, they declared me unfit to live.
Said in a great void my soul would be heard.
They wanna know why
I did what I did.
Sir, I guess it's just the meanness in this world.