Well the men don't know
But the little girls understand
I eats mo' chicken any man seen
I'm somewhere making my midnight creep
Stand out there, cop's wife cried
I am a back door man
Something tell me, I got to go
Six feets in the ground when you come home
When everybody's sound asleep
But little girls understand
Killed him for murder, first degree
I am a back door man
I am a back door man
You can eat pork and beans"
Every morning the rooster crow
I am a back door man
But little girls understand
"Don't take him down, rather be dead
Well the men don't know
I am a back door man
They take me to the doctor, shot full o' holes
Judge's wife cried, "Let the man go free!"
Well the men don't know
Nurse cried, "Please save his soul
