Taking Those Last Steps

Taking those last steps, so weary and slow
It leads to the gallows from there I don't know
One step every minute each minute a year
Oh, sorrow is bitter when no friends are near

If I had one wish love and that could come true
I'd wish I was pardoned and back home with you
I'd get on my knees, love, ask you to forgive
No more would I pain you as long as I live

Love, I never noticed that beautiful star
Was twinkling rapture beyond prison bars
And I never knew, love, that moon way up high
Carеss mellow moonbeams while sweeping thе sky

The weight of the world, love, is crushing my soul
It’s hard to be bound down in this prison hole
I’ve but one regret, love, that’s tortures my brain
It’s that I’ve been careless in causing you pain

Taking the last step with each step a prayer
Praying there’s forgiveness from him way up there
Oh, please say a prayer, love, for it’s my last plea
Pray that the sweet Master shows mercy on me

Perhaps in the next world on that judgment day
I’ll find that the Master washed my sins away
Then I’ll hold my head up when my soul is free
And rest in your arms, love, through eternity