Death Row - David Allan Coe

Sittin' here on death row

Behind a ton of steel

They say before I die

I gotta eat my last meal

I wanna double yolked egg from a pidgeon with fried bat wings over easy

The left hind leg of a black giraffe cooked medium rare, not too greasy

Smoked rhinoceros, pickled ant-eaters a plate of elephant stew

One mandrake root and a rabbit’s tung and a jaw of kangaroo

Oh Lord!

Now you know how I feel!

I’ll be ready to die now

Just as soon as I eat my last meal!

I hear yuh!

I want fresh tear-drops from a new-born child in a glass made in timbuktu

If you can’t get that, try a stewed pole-cat smothered with catfish brew

Take the ears from a rat-tailed monkey mixed with a spider’s left eye

And make me a sald of jungle roots and I’ll be ready to die!

Oh Lord!

Now you know how I feel!

I’ll be ready to die now

Just as soon as I eat my last meal!