[1] I've been in this prison twenty years or [5] more
I shot my woman with a forty [1] four
I'll be right here till my dyin' [4] day
I got 99 [1] years and [5] one dark [1] day

Well the food is bad and the beds are hard
I spend all day breakin' rocks in the yard
Well there ain't no change gonna stay that way
I got 99 years and one dark day

Ain't no singer that can sing a song
Convince this warden that I ain't wrong
His mind's made up gonna stay that way
I got 99 years and one dark day

Didn't learn to read I never learned to write
And my whole life's been one big fight
I never heard about the righteous way
I got 99 years and one dark day

I committed a crime many years ago
I shot my woman with a 44
I'll be right here till my dyin' day
I got 99 years and one dark day
I got 99 years and one dark day