Somebody better call the law We done took it outside we're about to brawl Ol' boy just put his hands on a woman Where I come from son the next thang comin' is a
A** whoopin' in the parkin' lot
'Bout to drop this fool right in front of the cops
And I ain't gonna run
I'm proud of what I done

Yeah read me my rights put me in cuffs
Take me downtown better lock me up
I'll do my time and raise my right hand
I'll tell the judge I'd do it again

I heard it through the grapevine
Good daddy and a husband is a doin' time
Said his wife and his kids was in the house Ol boy broke in man it all went south
When he drop the hammer on his forty five
Now he's in the pen twenty five to life
I hate to say but if it had been me
I'd have said

Read me my rights put me in cuffs
Take me downtown better lock me up
I'll do my time and raise my right hand
I'll tell the judge I'd do it again

If I have to put the law in my hands yeah, hell its bound to break
Cause I know right from wrong and if you cross that line
Boy all I gotta say is
All I gotta say is

Read me my rights put me in cuffs
Take me downtown better lock me up
Better lock me up
I'll do my time raise my right hand
I'll tell the judge I'd do it again

Read me my rights put me in cuffs
Take me downtown better lock me up
I'll do my time raise my right hand
I'll tell the judge I'd do that again

Uh, Your honor, I can't lie, I'm guilty