"Don't take him down, rather be dead
Every morning the rooster crow
But little girls understand
Well the men don't know
Killed him for murder, first degree
Well the men don't know
I am a back door man

I'm somewhere making my midnight creep

I am a back door man
Judge's wife cried, "Let the man go free!"

But little girls understand
When everybody's sound asleep

I am a back door man
Stand out there, cop's wife cried
But the little girls understand
You can eat pork and beans"
Well the men don't know
They take me to the doctor, shot full o' holes

Nurse cried, "Please save his soul
Something tell me, I got to go
Six feets in the ground when you come home
I am a back door man
I am a back door man
I eats mo' chicken any man seen
I am a back door man