well have you seen my darkhaired girl she was set on her love to a hungry world they got her clothes ana the money she took and they wrote her name in the prison books orleans parish prison won t you free my darkhaired girl she s tired and cold and you got the gold she took from a hungry world orleans parish prison won t you free my darkhaired girl well have seen my green eyed son he shot a man down with a sawed off gun and they fond him down by the pontchartrain where they cuffed his arms with a big iron chain orleans parish prison won t you free me green eyed son i heard him say as you let him away sorry for what he s done orleans parish prison won t you free me green eyed son well have you missed my brother man he took a little money with a gun in his hand know the kids are hungry and the wife ain t well and the daddy s locked up in a prison cell orleans parish prison won t you free my brother man i know it s sad but he ain t bad he s doing the best he can orleans parish prison won t you free my brother man 