Framed - Chris Knight

Well I was hauling logs ten years ago

The news was out on the radio

That a shot was fired the night before

And a local man lay dead on the floor

And the dust was flying in the lumberyard

Lights were flashing on two black cars

I said, sheriff I ain’t done nothing wrong

He just knocked me down and put the handcuffs on

I was framed, they took me away

Like I was the only one to blame

Framed, guilty they said

Railroaded me on a one way train

Framed, and on judgement day

They want me to hang my head in shame

But I was framed, and that’s all I’ll say

Now don’t be running down my name

I was framed

Barbara Jo cried through the glass

At the murder trial I seen her last

I loved that woman but now she’s free

She turned away when they sentenced me

And the guilty man ain’t never told

Ten years later they put me on the road

And I’ll always say that I got screwed

I’m a brand new man with the same attitude

I was framed, they took me away

Like I was the only one to blame

Framed, guilty they said

Railroaded me on a one way train

Framed, and on judgement day

They want me to hang my head in shame

But I was framed, and that’s all I’ll say

Now don’t be running down my name

I was framed

Now the guilty man paid long ago

He’s the same man who got laid low

When he took my wife he was hell bound

Even if I did gun him down

I was framed, they took me away

Like I was the only one to blame

Framed, guilty they said

Railroaded me on a one way train

Framed, and on judgement day

They want me to hang my head in shame

But I was framed, and that’s all I’ll say

Now don’t be running down my name

I was framed

I was framed