Have Mercy Baby - The Dominoes, Bill Brown, Clyde McPhatter

Somewhere on the hill?

Chasing some poor criminal

And I guess they’re out to kill

Oh there must be shackles on his feet

And mother in his eyes

Stumbling through the Devil dark

With the hound pack in full cry

Have mercy on the criminal

Who is running from the law

Are you blind to the winds of change?

Don’t you hear him anymore?

Saying, «Lord you gotta help me

Now I am never gonna sin again

Take these chains from around my legs

Sweet Jesus I’ll be your friend»

Now have you ever seen the white teeth gleam

While you lie on a cold damp ground?

Taking in the face of a rifle butt

While the wardens hold you down

And you’ve never seen a friend in years

Oh it turns your heart to stone

You jump the wall and the dogs run free

And the grave gonna be your home

Have mercy on the criminal

Who is running from the law

Are you blind to the winds of change?

Don’t you hear him anymore?

Saying, «Lord you gotta help me

Now I am never gonna sin again

Take these chains from around my legs

Sweet Jesus I’ll be your friend»

Have mercy on the criminal

Who is running from the law

Are you blind to the winds of change?

Don’t you hear him anymore?

Saying, «Lord you gotta help me

Now I am never gonna sin again

Take these chains from around my legs

Sweet Jesus I’ll be your friend»

Somewhere on the hill?

Chasing some poor criminal