Doing time for a crime that he didn't commit The look of a man that the man don't fit Now he's in the penitentiary When an honest man now should be living free He said to break it would take three years or less They cut his time in half if he did confess But it's hard now understand When you're living a life of an honest man and he said It will only take me Three little years or less They cut my sentence right in half, man If I was to confess and I says I ain't going to do it Just now to save my pride Confessing would be nothing but a dirty dirty lie La da da da.... Less then 3 turned to 33 33 turned to 34 When he finally broke out the prison walls He was up for his own parole And he saw the new world of calamity And didn't like what it had become He said it changed oh such a terrible way from the era where he came from And he said It will only take me Three little years or less And they cut my sentence right in half, man If I was to confess and I says I ain't going to do it Just now to save my pride Confessing would be nothing but a dirty dirty lie Ya ya ya La da da da....