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Artist/Band: Hank Williams Jr.
Lyrics for Song: The Eyes Of Death
Lyrics for Album: Ballads Of The Hills And Plains [1965]



They sent me to this prison

For a crime I did outside

I killed a man and didn't hang

But I might as well have died



For every minute that I live

I know that death may call

You see his brother's here with me

Right inside these walls



And I don't even know his face

But I'm sure that he knows mine



The eyes of death are watchin' me

Just bidin' his time

(Oh Lord, he takes his time)



Each night they slam my lonely cell

And turn the lights down low

And I can't close my eyes to sleep

Because somewhere I know



He's planning how he'll drive the knife

Into my poundin' heart

And Lord this just not knowing

When will tear a man apart



He's just a number not a name

And you'll get me from behind



The eyes of death are watchin' me

Just bidin' his time

(Oh Lord, he takes his time)



Sometimes I think I'll try to walk

And face the deadly guns

I'd either die or I'd be free

To leave this place and run



This man he swore to make me pay

But he'd rather see me cry

So he'll just play around with me

While I wait to die



No prison ever held the man

With a sentence just like mine



The eyes of death are watchin' me

Just bidin' his time

(Oh Lord, he takes his time)



He's bidin' his time

(Oh Lord, he takes his time)

He's just bidin' his time


Album Lyrics: Ballads Of The Hills And Plains [1965]


Hank Williams Jr.
"Ballads Of The Hills And Plains [1965]"


1. Doc Holliday
2. Cowpoke
3. Blizzard
4. The Rainmaker
5. Streets Of Laredo
6. The Eyes Of Death