[00:09.56]All rise for the Honorable Judge Burrell
[00:16.03]This court is called to order
[00:19.56]These charges are serious
[00:21.86]Stand up and face the bench
[00:24.75]How do you plead, Sir? How do you plead?
[00:29.58]“Guilty as charged,” the Judge decreed
[00:32.46]“Stand up and face the bench
[00:36.15]I have some words to say to you before we recommence
[00:42.91]A list of crimes this serious, I swear I have not seen
[00:50.14]In all the years that I have served Her Majesty the Queen
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[00:56.66]Arson, murder, blackmail, grand larceny and theft
[01:02.78]Drug dealing, human trafficking, I ask the court, what’s left?
[01:11.00]Are there words of mitigation, before I pass the sentence?
[01:17.17]Anything that you can tell the court to add to your defense?”
[01:23.69]I faced the court, thought long and hard before I gave reply
[01:31.71]“There’s something that you need to hear, from me before I die
[01:37.69]The circumstances of my birth were something short of bliss
[01:45.06]I have this from my mother, it was told to me like this…
[01:51.34]‘The day that I was born, she said, The Good Lord woke from slumber
[01:59.05]Looking ‘round his timber yard, He found He had no lumber
[02:04.87]Apart from some old twisted branch, in shadows left to lurk
[02:12.65]He pulled it out into the light and set about his work.’
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[02:19.47]She told me that the world should not expect too much of me
[02:26.00]When the Good Lord carved my crooked soul, out of a crooked tree
[02:32.82]When the Good Lord carved my crooked soul, out of a crooked tree.”
[02:40.29]“Stand up and face the bench
[02:42.68]I’ve heard all you’ve got to say
[02:46.32]That there look on your face says you’re guilty
[02:49.60]And now it’s your judgment day.”
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[02:53.43]“I’m not asking for forgiveness
[02:56.27]I’m not proud of what I’ve done
[02:59.56]I did the things I had to do, like any other mother’s son
[03:07.48]None of us are perfect, so remember what you see
[03:14.01]When the Good lord carved this crooked soul, out of a crooked tree
[03:20.68]When the Good Lord carved this crooked soul, out of a crooked tree.”