you hear me singin down in the bottom of the world a thousand miles from nowhere dreamin bout a girl she used to love me but i went away they gonna keep me here till the judgment day lord lord lord i got the jailhouse blues ain t no tellin what a man will do this old world to make it through some would murder with a gun or a knife some would lock a man away for the rest of his life lord lord lord i got the jailhouse blues i got the jailhouse blues just as blue as i can be my baby got a heart like a rock in the bottom of the sea i got the jailhouse blues an it ain t no lie lawd lock on the door i broke the law i got the jailhouse blues they says a blind man don t see nothin when he dream there s plenty things wish i never seen i wish i never seen her askin why when they come and taken me the way that she cried lord lord lord i got the jailhouse blues  i got the jailhouse blues just as blue as i can can be my baby got a heart like a rock in the bottom of the sea i got the jailhouse blues and it ain t no lie lawd lock on the door i broke the law i got the jailhouse blues i got the jailhouse blues just as blue as i can be my baby got a heart like a rock in the bottom of the sea i got the jailhouse blues and it ain t no lie lawd lock on the door i broke the law i got the jailhouse blues