Branded - Marty Stuart

Well I’m branded wherever I go

Trying to outrun a bad story everybody seems to know

Might as well be wearing a ball and chain

Cause everywhere I travel see my picture

With a number by my name

Spent some time in San Francisco locked up for vagrancy

I busted out a time or two took a run at getting free

They put me back in the jailhouse I finished serving my time

Turned me loose and the man said I’ll dog you to the end of the line

Well I’m branded wherever I go

Trying to outrun a bad story everybody seems to know

Might as well be wearing a ball and chain

Cause everywhere I travel see my picture

With a number by my name

The trouble with the truth it always comes around

Seems to be there waiting for me in every town

Well I’m guilty of the crime of trying to get back home

Don’t want to bother nobody just want to be left alone

Well I’m branded wherever I go

Trying to outrun a bad story everybody seems to know

Might as well be wearing a ball and chain

Cause everywhere I travel see my picture

With a number by my name