Oh mama, I'm in fear for my life from the long arm of the law
Lawman has put an end to my running and I'm so far from my home
Oh mama, I can hear your crying
You're so scared and all alone
Hangman is coming down from the gallows and I don't have very long

The jig is up the news is out they've finally found me
The renegade who had it made retrieved for a bounty
Never more to go astray
This will be the end today of the wanted man

Oh mama, I've been years on the
lam and had a high price on my head
Lawman said get him dead or alive
now it's for sure he'll see me dead
Dear mama, I can hear you crying
you're so scared and all alone
Hangman is coming down from the gallows and I don't have very long

The jig is up, the news is out they finally found me
The renegade who had it made retrieved for a bounty
Never more to go astray
The judge'll have revenge today on the wanted man

Oh mama, I'm in fear for my life
from the long arm of the law
Hangman is coming down from the
gallows and I don't have very long

The jig is up, the news is out they finally found me
The renegade who had it made retrieved for a bounty
Never more to go astray
This'll be the end today of the wanted man, the wanted man

I don't want to go oh No
No, no, no, no

Oh mama, don't let him take me

Oh no, oh no, no, no, no, no, no