Natchez Landing

Well there's a place down in Louisiana along the Mississippi River

They got man-eatin' dogs and the walls are forty feet high

Where many good man has took his stand

And with a chain on his leg he had to stand and beg

To the big bossman at the prisoner at Natchez Landing

Well ev'ry man says he ain't guilty but what I'm gonna tell you is true

I did a lot of time for a thing I didn't do

That big bossman he drove me like a slave

I finally broke to freedom couldn't stay that way

Now they're taking me back to the prison at Natchez Landing

He makes me walk and talk to a big rock pile

You could hear my hammer ring for a mile

And if I ever dared to give him any lip

He makes me answer to the big pull whip

He's the big bossman at the prison at Natchez Landing

Well that old train is really hummin' taking me back where I'm belongin'

That is if you can call prison a place where a man belongs in

I chaned to a guard who's unaware

The switch has been thrown that will tear

This train from the tracks and keep me out of Natchez Landing

Now a 20-ton engine a bunch of cars are a mass of twisted steel

At last I'm free and I can't believe it's real

I'm hurt mighty bad but I feel no pain

Cause the guard next to me he'll never use that whip again

He's the big bossman at the prison at Natchez Landing

Yeah he made me walk and talk to a big rock pile

You could hear my hammer ring for a mile

And if I ever dared to give him any lip

He makes me answer to the big pull whip

He was the big bossman at the prison at Natchez Landing

He was the big bossman at the prison at Natchez Landing

I said the big bossman at the prison at Natchez Landing