TAYLOR COUNTY JAIL (Nancy Moore)
BY: DIXIE HALL (BMI)
TOM T. HALL (BMI)

VERSE 1: HE WAS DRIVING UP THROUGH PERRY ON A FEBRUARY MORNING
ON HIS WAY TO SPEND A FEW DAYS WITH ME IN ST. AUGUSTINE
WHEN THE PO-LICE PULLED HIM OVER PULLED HIM OVER ON THE SHOULDER
WAS A FLORIDA STATE TROOPER DRESSED UP LIKE A BIG MARINE

VERSE 2: HE DIDN'T HAVE THE PAPERS FOR THE TRUCK THAT HE WAS DRIVING
AND HE DIDN'T HAVE THE LICENSE THAT THEY TOOK IN TENNESSEE
THE BAD NEWS IS THAT PRISON SEPARATES THE HERS AND HISN'S
AND HE SITS THERE CONTEMPLATING ALL THE PLACES WE COULD BE

CHORUS: NOW HE'S SITTING IN THE TAYLOR COUNTY JAIL
WHERE HE GETS HIS EDUCATION AND IT'S WHERE I SEND HIS MAIL
HE'S A STOOLIE, HE'S A PIGEON HE'S GOT ALL KINDS OF RELIGION
HE'D DO ANYTHING TO GET OUT OF THE TAYLOR COUNTY JAIL

VERSE 3: WELL OF COURSE THEY DIDN'T KNOW HIM SO THEY ASKED HIM WHAT HIS NAME WAS
TOLD THEM HE WAS JIMMY BOWEN FROM UP THERE IN TENNESSEE
HE DON'T KNOW NO JIMMY BOWEN, NEVER HEARD OF JIMMY BOWEN
BUT HE SAID "I BET HE'S GOT A BETTER ALIBI THAN ME"

VERSE 4: HE GOT TO LOOKING AT SOME PICTURES IN A MAGAZINE HE BORROWED
PRETTY WOMEN WITHOUT CLOTHES IT MADE HIM WANT TO LEAVE THE PLACE
HE SLIPPED AWAY INTO THE SWAMP HE MUST HAVE CLIMED A HUNDRED FENCES
AND WOUND UP NEAR LAKE CITY OVER BY THE INTERSTATE

VERSE 5: HE CALLED ME FROM A PAY PHONE HE SAID NOTHING'S GONNA STOP ME
AS HE WALKED OUT ON THE ROAD HE THOUGHT HIS THUMB WOULD TAKE HIM FAR
SAW A CAR SLOW DOWN AND STOP AND HE WENT RUNNING TO GET IN IT
WAS A FLORIDA STATE TROOPER IN AN UNMARKED CAR

CHORUS: NOW HE'S BACK THERE IN THE TAYLOR COUNTY JAIL
WHERE HE GETS HIS EDUCATION AND IT'S WHERE HE GETS HIS MAIL
HE'S A STOOLIE, HE'S A PIGEON HE'S GOT ALL KINDS OF RELIGION
HE'D DO ANYTHING TO GET OUT OF THE TAYLOR COUNTY JAIL

AD LIB: MEANWHILE, I'M GONNA CHILL OUT ON THE BEACH…AND IF HE THINKS I AIN'T
GONNA LOOK AROUND HE'S MAKING A BIG MISTAKE! ARE THERE ANY BANJER PICKERS IN THIS LOUSY TOWN? HEY, FELLA…LET ME SEE THAT G STRING.