Elvis Presley - I Washed My Hands In Muddy Water lyrics

I was born in Macon Georgia

They kept my daddy over in Macon jail

He told me if you keep your hands clean

You won`t hear them bloodhounds on your trail

Well I fell in with bad companions

Robbed a man, oh up in Tennessee

They caught me way up in Nashville

They locked me up and threw away the key

I washed my hands in muddy water

Washed my hands, but they didn`t come clean

Tried to do what my daddy told me

But I must have washed my hands in a muddy stream

Well I asked the judge now when`s my time up

He said son, oh you know we won`t forget

If you try just to keep your hands clean

We might just make a good man of you yet

Oh I couldn`t wait to get my time up

I broke out, broke out of Nashville jail

I just crossed the state-line of Georgia

Well I can hear those bloodhounds on my trail

I washed my hands in muddy water

Washed my hands, but they didn`t come clean

Tried to do what my daddy told me

But I must have washed my hands in a muddy stream