Judge you wanna hear my plea  Before you open up your court  But I don't want no sympathy  'Cause I done cut my good man's throat  I caught him whith a trifling Jane  I warned him 'bout before  I had my knife and went insane  And the rest you ought to know  Judge, judge, please mister judge,  Send me to the 'lectric chair  Judge, judge, good mister judge,  Let me go away from here  I wanna take a journey  To the devil down below  I done killed my man  I wanna reap just what I sow  Oh judge, judge, lordy lordy judge  Send me to the 'lectric chair  Judge, judge, hear me judge  Send me to the 'lectric chair  I love him so dear  I cut him with my barlow (?)  I kicked him in the side  I stood here laughing o'r him  While he wallowed around and died  Oh judge, judge, lordy judge  Send me to the 'lectric chair  Judge, judge, sweet mister judge  Send me to the 'lectric chair  Judge, judge, good kind judge  Burn me 'cause I don't care  I don't want no one good mayor  To go my bail  I don't want to spend no  Ninety-nine years in jail  So judge, judge, good kind judge  Send me to the 'lectric chair