I was born in macon, georgia, met my dad in a macon jail
He said, son, if you keep your hands clean
You won't have them bloodhounds on your trail

I fell in with bad companions, robbed a man in tennessee
Sheriff caught me way up in nashville
And they locked me up and they threw away the key

Refrain:
I washed my hands in muddy water
I washed my hands but they didn't come clean
Tried to do what my daddy told me
But I must have washed my hands in a muddy stream

I asked the jailer when my time's up, he said, son, we won't forget
If you try to keep your hands clean
We may make a good man of you yet.

I couldn't wait to do my sentence, I broke out of the nashville jail
I just crossed the line of georgia
And I can hear those bloodhounds on my trail

Refrain (2 times)

• Adventures in Success
• Afro Super
• Air Over
• Air Voice
• All Thru History
• Always
• Ask Anybody
• Back in The High Life Again
• Berkshire Poppies
• Black Beauty
• Blind Man
• Blues in F
• Carnival
• Change of Address
• Christmas is Now Drawing Near at Hand
• Coloured Rain
• Cross Ing The Line
• Crossroads
• Cryin' to Be Heard
• Da Da Man
• Dancing for Mental Health
• Dimples
• Do What You Like
• Don't Be Sad
• Don't Care
• Don't Want You No More
• Dream Gerrard
• Dust My Blues
• Evening Blue
• Every Little Bit Hurts
• Every Mother's Son
• Every Night, Every Day
• Exchange & Mart
• Far from Home
• Feelin' Alright
• Feelin' Good
• For Beauties Sake
• Freedom Rider
• Georgia on My Mind
• Ghostmachine
• Give It Up
• Giving to You
• Glad
• Go Juan
• Goodbye Stevie
• Graveyard People
• Happy Birthday
• Heaven is in Your Mind
• Here Comes a Man
• Here Right Now
• Here We Go Round The Mulberry Bush
• Hey, Darling
• Hidden Treasure
• High Time Baby
• Hole in My Shoe
• Holy Ground
• Hope I Never Find Me There
• House for Everyone
• How Blue Can You Get
• I Can't Get Enough of It
• I Can't Stand It
• I Want to Know
• I Washed My Hands in Muddy Water
• I'll Drown in My Own Tears
• I'm Blue
• I'm Getting Better
• If That Gun's for Real
• Imagine
• Irin-ajo
• It Hurts Me So
• It's All Right
• It's Gonna Work Out Fine
• Jump Back
• Just for You
• Kansas City
• Keep on Running
• Kissing With Confidence
• Let Me Down Easy
• Light up or Leave Me Alone
• Long
• Look Away
• Love
• Man of Leo
• Many a Mile to Freedom
• Mean Woman Blues
• Means to an End
• Medicated Goo
• Memories of a Rock N' Rolla
• Midnight Special
• Midnight Train
• Mojo Working
• Mozambique
• My Babe
• Nature
• Neighbor Neighbor
• New Orleans
• Night Time is The Right Time
• No Face, No Name, No Number
• No Time to Live
• Nobody Loves You when You're Down & Out
• Nowhere is Their Freedom
• Oh! Pretty Woman
• On The Green Light
• Opportunity
• Penultimate Zone
• Pepsi Cola Jingle
• Please Do Something
• Presence of The Lord
• Rainmaker
• Reach for The Light
• Riding High
• Rock & Roll Stew
• Roll Right Stones
• Rollright Stones
• Sad & Deep as You
• Sea of Joy
• Searchin'
• Shanghai Noodle Factory
• Shango
• She Put The Hurt on Me
• Shootout at The Fantasy Factory
• Shouldn't Have Took More Than You Gave
• Since I Met You Baby
• Sittin' & Thinkin'
• Sleeping in The Ground
• Smile
• Smiling Phases
• Solitude
• Some Kinda Woman
• Somebody Help Me
• Something New
• Something's Got a Hold of My Toe
• Space Requiem
• Space Song
• Space Theme
• State of Grace
• Stellar
• Stevie's Blues
• Stevie's Groove
• Stranger to Himself
• Strong Love
• Surf Spin
• Take This Hurt Off Me
• Teddy Bears Picnic
• That's All
• That's Love
• This Hammer
• This Train Won't Stop
• Time is Here
• Together Till The End of Time
• Tragic Magic
• Trampoline
• Under My Thumb
• Uninspired
• Utterly Simple
• Vagabond Virgin
• Walking in The Wind
• Waltz for Lumumba
• Watch Your Step
• We're a Fade, You Missed This
• Well All Right
• When a Man Loves a Woman
• When I Come Home
• When The Eagle Flies
• Who Knows What Tomorrow May Bring?
• Will Powers
• Wind Spin
• Winner/loser
• Withering Tree
• You Can All Join In
• You Must Believe Me