Words & Music by: Bob Pauley©1999

Background Recite "A Letter From Death Row" by Tom Provenzano

Open (lively) Well, you come down South to have a good time

Welcome to Florida…the land of sunshine

But there’s one thing that you may not know

(…And pray to God you’ll never know)

They got a mighty graveyard…in the back of Death Row

…a mighty graveyard…out in back of Death Row

Verse I Come with me to this place that I know

(slowly) Where only the willow weeps for those below

They’re renowned for their crimes but forgotten by time

In the garden that nobody knows

…It’s the garden where nobody goes

Verse II Between Raiford and Starke, betwixt hell and gone

A thousand lost souls in my memory live on

Four hundred more, Lord…they wait at the door

In the garden that nobody knows

…In the garden where nobody goes

Chorus Oh I come to this garden alone…all alone

I whisper a prayer for everyone gone…they’ve gone on

Innocent, some, with weeds overgrown

I pause for a moment as I ponder each stone

…In the garden where nobody goes

Verse III It’s a story that I’ve come to share

Of a many a man that’s buried out there

In the blink of an eye…Lord, they’re sentenced to die

In the garden that nobody knows

,,,In the garden where nobody goes

Verse IV Nearby there’s a row of dark dreary cells

It’s stranger than fiction this woebegone tale

Pray that you’ll never go…keep away from Death Row

And this garden that nobody knows

…In the garden where nobody goes

Verse V It’s just getting’ light now, they’re walking in slow

They carry a pine box with one more lost soul

But oh, when they’re gone, there’ll be one more stone

In the garden that nobody knows

…In the garden where nobody goes

Chorus Repeat as above, repeat again and Fade…