If you take the time and trouble
I've a story I'll relay
How I've drink away my freedom
Drank my path to a prison gate
Once love came, sweetest splendor
Angel's love I'd dream was mine
Now I've tried to quit my drinkin'
The devil's own red wicked wine
Then one night, I found my darling
Locked inn the arms of my best friend
Wicked wine and a loaded pistol
Brought them both to a bloody end
My fate was sealed by judge and jury
Life in prison they did say
Life to grieve and life to wonder
Wicked wine did me astray
I have traded love and freedom
For prison stripes and a worried mind
Now I know but grief and sorrow
All for the love of wicked wine
The devil's own red wicked wine
