Harder Cards

Well, a hammer fell down on a 44 Primer Now there's one less problem in South Carolina tonight Wrong or right She just looked to me as she finished her tale The blank expression went another shade of pale of gray There was nothing to say In the shadows of her face I saw the scars That you get when you live where love is hard And she said "Don't you sit and judge me from some high and mighty seat Don't you shrug it off until you've walked a mile in my bare feet There are people that you pass by every day With harder cards than yours in life to play" Well, I put the cuffs on her, and I sat her in the car Walked inside, he was layin' on the floor stone dead He's been shot in the head There's whiskey bottles and dope by the chair Starving baby with nothing to wear but tears So the picture was clear He had finally pushed her way across the line And the badge I wore was losing all its shine And she said "Don't you sit and judge me from some high and mighty seat Don't you shrug it off until you've walked a mile in my bare feet There are people that you pass by every day With harder cards than yours in life to play" Now I just stood there thinkin' how justice is blind But after 35 years, you learn to read the signs So I made up my mind I took the cuffs off her and I walked her back in Wiped the gun off and wrapped it in his right hand Where it should've been And the morning paper read in black and white It's just another senseless case of suicide Suicide Oh, but don't you sit and judge me from some high and mighty seat Don't you shrug it off until you've walked a mile along my beat There are people that you pass by every day With harder cards than yours in life to play Well, a hammer fell down on a 44 Primer Now there's one less problem in South Carolina tonight