Better Son

Oh now Momma don't you look my way

and close your ears to what I have to say

I've finally met my dying day

my body will hang and my feet will sway

I was born into this world in the dead of night

and begged from the darkness into the light

told to turn a cheek to a strangers strike

but I guess I never learned that lesson right

Better son, better son 

Lord I wish I'd been a better son

I wish I never did those things I done

Lord I wish I'd been a better son

A better son becomes a better man

but Lord I only am just what I am

And a better man comes from a better son

so Lord I wish I'd been a better son

Well how I do regret that fateful day

when Sheriff John Browne he learned my name

it come off the lips of his lover who lay beaten and bruised from his angry ways

If I could turn back time, or stop a clock

I never would have gone and fired that shot

And I know that he earned the things he got

but it's turned my soul to stone and rot

Better son, better son 

Lord I wish I'd been a better son 

I wish I never did those things I done 

Lord I wish I'd been a better son 

A better son becomes a better man 

but Lord I only am just what I am 

And a better man comes from a better son 

so Lord I wish I'd been a better son

Now as that morning sun rises in the east 

I pray the Lord my soul release 

and I be born again, but new and young 

and Lord I'd be a better son

A better son, a better son

Lord I wish I'd been a better son

I wish I never did those things I done

Lord I wish I'd been a better son

A better son becomes a better man

but Lord I only am just what I am 

And a better man comes from a better son

so Lord I wish I'd been a better son