i m in a women s prison with bars all around i caught my darling cheating that s when i shot him down i caught him in a honky tonk with a girl i used to know the door to my cell is open wide and a voice cries out oh no the judge says i m guilty my sentence is to die i know i ve been forgiven but the price of love is high there s a crowd outside screaming let that murderer die but above all their voices i can hear my mama cry i m sitting here on death row and lord i ve lost my mind for love i ve killed my darling and for love i ll lose my life i can hear the warden coming from the clinging of his keys but when they come to get me he ll have to drag me off my knees the door to the cell swings open it s time for me to go the priest is reading my last rites he says dying s part of livin ya know there s a crowd outside screaming let that murderer fry but above all their voices you can hear my mama cry now they ve strapped me in the chair and covered up my eyes and the last voice i hear on earth is my mama s cry