Muddy Water:Johnny Rivers.
#19 in '66.
#1.
I was down 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.
#2.
Well, I fell in with bad companions.
Robbed a mail train up in Tennessee.
They caught me way up in Nashville.
and they locked me up and threw away the key.
CHORUS:
I washed my hands in muddy water.
I washed my hands, but they didn't come clean.
I tried to do what my daddy told me..
But I must have washed my hands in a muddy stream.
#3.
Well, I asked the jailer, now, when's my time up?
He said son, 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.
#4.
Oh, I couldn't wait to get my time in.
I broke out of the Nashville jail.
I just crossed Atlanta, Georgia,
and I can hear those bloodhounds on my trail.
CHORUS:(x2)
I washed my hands in muddy water.
I washed my hands, but they didn't come clean.
I tried to do what my daddy told me..
But I must have washed my hands in a muddy stream.
A sixties smash from Kraziekhat.