Last time last time we were here at Folsom Prison

They were hanging Joe Bean

Is Joe still here Joe Bean

Hang the son of a b***h anyways right

Well they're hanging Joe Bean this morning for killing a man in Arkansas

Funny thing about it Joe Bean has never been to Arkansas

On top of that Joe Bean never heard of the man

In fact today is Joe Bean's twentieth birthday

See through the prison bars Joe Bean see where the gallows stand

Just twenty short years from the day you were born

You died by the hangman's hand

Yes they're hanging Joe Bean this morning for a shooting that he never did

He killed 20 men by the time he was 10

He was an unruly kid

Yes they're hanging Joe Bean for the one shooting that Joe Bean never did

Well Joe your mother is at the Capitol asking the governor for a stay

And it's hard on her 'cause she knows where you were

On that particular day

You were working Joe Bean hard working robbing the Santa Fe

Well the telegraph wires are humming

He said I can't set you free it's not up to me

But there's much Joe Bean

I'll do I'll join your mother in extending Birthday greetings to you

Happy Birthday Joe Bean

Alright

June June Carter

Let's get June out here

Let's get June Carter and the Tennessee Three back out right now