I'm gonna give you 40 days to get back home
I done called up a gypsy woman on the telephone
I'm gonna send out a worldwide hoodoo
It'll be the very thing that'll suit you
I'm gonna see that you'll be back home in 40 days
Yeah, 40 days (40 days)
Oh, 40 days (40 days)
I'm gonna see that you'll be back home in 40 days (40 days)
I'm gonna send out a worldwide hoodoo
It'll be the very thing that'll suit you
I'm gonna see that you'll be back home in 40 days
Hell, I talked to the judge in private, Lordy, early this mornin'
He nearly took me to the Sheriff's Office to sign a warnin'
They gonna throw a false charge again' ya
It'll be the very thing that'll send ya
I'm gonna see that you'll be back home in 40 days
Yeah, 40 days (40 days)
Oh, 40 days (40 days)
I'm gonna see that you'll be back home in 40 days (40 days)
I'm gonna send out a worldwide hoodoo
It'll be the very thing that'll suit ya
I'm gonna see that you'll be back home in 40 days
Hey, mama
Whoa, yeah
If I get no satisfaction from the judge
I'm gonna take it to the FBI as a personal grudge
And if I get no constellation I'm gonna take it to the United Nations
I'm gonna see that you'll be back home in 40 days
Yeah, 40 days (40 days)
Oh, 40 days (40 days)
I'm gonna see that you'll be back home in 40 days (40 days)
And if I get no constellation I'm gonna take it to the United Nations
I'm gonna see that you'll be back home in 40 days
Oh yeah, baby, woo!
Yeah, 40 days (40 days)
Woo, 40 days (40 days)
I'm gonna see that you'll be back home in 40 days (40 days)
I'm gonna send out a worldwide hoodoo
It'll be the very thing that'll suit you
I'm gonna see that you'll be back home in 40 days
Whoa!