Drifter's Escape

Album: John Wesley Harding (1967)
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  • Oh, help me in my weakness
    I heard the drifter say
    As they carried him from the courtroom
    And were taking him away
    My trip hasn't been a pleasant one
    And my time it isn't long
    And I still do not know
    What it was that I've done wrong

    Well, the judge, he cast his robe aside
    A tear came to his eye
    You fail to understand,he said
    Why must you even try
    Outside, the crowd was stirring
    You could hear it from the door
    Inside, the judge was stepping down
    While the jury cried for more

    Oh, stop that cursed jury
    Cried the attendant and the nurse
    The trial was bad enough
    But this is ten times worse
    Just then a bolt of lightning
    Struck the courthouse out of shape
    And while everybody knelt to pray
    The drifter did escape Writer/s: Bob Dylan
    Publisher: Universal Music Publishing Group
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