Muddy Water Lyrics

I was born in Macon, Georgia

They kept my dad in the Macon jail

He said son, "if you keep your hands clean"

You won't hear those bloodhounds on your trail

But I fell in with bad companions

I robbed a man in South Tennessee

Well they caught me way up in Nashville

They locked me up and threw anyway the key

And I washed my hands in muddy water

Yeah I washed my hands but they didn't come clean

I tried to do what my daddy told me

But I must of washed my hands in a muddy stream

Well I could not wait to get my time done

So I broke out of the Nashville jail

And I just crossed the state line to Georgia

And I can hear them big bad bloodhounds on my trail

And I washed my hands in muddy water

Yeah I washed my hands But they didn't come clean

I tried to do what my daddy told me

But I must of washed my hands in a muddy stream

Yes I must have washed my hands in a muddy stream