Framed

Well, I was haulin' logs ten years ago

The news was out on the radio

That a shot was fired the night before

And a local man laid dead on the floor

And the dust was flyin' in the lumber yard

Lights were flashin' on two black cars

I said, Sheriff, I ain't done nothin' wrong

He just knocked me down and put the handcuffs on

I was framed

They took me away like I was the only one to blame

Framed

Guilty, they said

And railroaded me on a one-way train

Framed, and on judgement day

They want me to hang my head in shame

But I was framed

And that's all I'll say

Now don't be runnin' down my name

I was framed

Barbara-Jo cried through the glass

At the murder trial I seen her last

I love that woman but now she's free

She turned away when they sentenced me

And the guilty man ain't never told

Ten years later they put me on the road

And I'll always say that I got screwed

I'm a brand new man with the same attittude

I was framed

They took me away

Like I was the only one to blame

Framed, guilty they said

Railroaded me on a one-way train

Framed, and on judgement day

They want me to hang my head in shame

But I was framed, and that's all I'll say

Now don't be runnin' down my name

I was framed

Now the guilty man paid long ago

He's the same man that got laid low

When he took my wife he was hellbound

And even if I did gun him down

I was framed

They took me away like I was the only one to blame

Framed, guilty they said

Railroaded me on a one-way train

Framed, and on judgement day

They want me to hang my head in shame

But I was framed

And that's all I'll say

Now don't be runnin' down my name

I was framed

I was framed