Album: O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000)
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  • Well, the high sheriff
    He told his deputy
    "Want you go out and bring me Lazarus"

    Well, the high sheriff
    Told his deputy
    "I want you go out and bring me Lazarus
    Bring him dead or alive"
    Lawd, lawd
    "Bring him dead or alive"

    Well the deputy he told the high sheriff
    "I ain't gonna mess with Lazarus"
    Well the deputy he told the high sheriff
    Says "I ain't gonna mess with Lazarus
    Well he's a dangerous man"
    Lawd, lawd
    "He's a dangerous man"

    Well then the high sheriff, he found Lazarus
    He was hidin' in the chill of a mountain
    Well the high sheriff, found Lazarus
    He was hidin' in the chill of the mountain
    With his head hung down
    Lawd, lawd
    With his head hung down

    Well then the high sheriff, he told Lazarus
    He says "Lazarus, I come to arrest you"
    Well the high sheriff, told Lazarus
    Says "Lazarus I come to arrest you
    And bring you dead or alive"
    Lawd, lawd
    "Bring you dead or alive"

    Well then Lazarus, he told the high sheriff
    Says "I never been arrested"
    Well Lazarus, told the high sheriff
    Says "I never been arrested
    By no one man"
    Lawd, lawd
    "By no one man"

    And then the high sheriff, he shot Lazarus
    Well, he shot him with a mighty big number
    Well the high sheriff, shot Lazarus
    Well he shot him with a mighty big number
    With a .45
    Lawd, lawd
    With a .45

    Well then they take dead old Lazarus
    Yes they laid him on the commissary gallery
    Well they taken poor Lazarus
    And the laid him on the commissary gallery
    He said "my wounded side"
    Lawd, lawd
    "My wounded side" Writer/s: James Carter
    Publisher: Red Brick Music Publishing
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