I'm gonna give you 40 days To get back with me I done called a gypsy woman on the telephone I'm gonna send out a world-wide who-do-that And do the very thing that I should, yeah I'm gonna sentence you to be back home in 40 days Whew! 40 days! (40 days) I'm gonna sentence you to be back home in 40 days (40 days) I'm gonna send out a world-wide who-do-that And do everything that I should, yeah I'm gonna sentence you to be back home in 40 days I heard 'em talkin' to the judge in private Early this mornin' I heard they took it to the Sherriff Signed a warnin' Again That'd be the very thing I said I'm gonna sentence you to be back in 40 days Whew! 40 days! (40 days) I'm gonna sentence you to be back home in 40 days (40 days) I'm gonna send out a world-wide who-do-that And do everything that I should I'm gonna sentence you to be back home in 40 days Whew, 40 days Woah! 40 days! (40 days) I'm gonna sentence you to be back home in 40 days (40 days) I'm gonna? and get ya That'll be the very thing that I said, ya I'm gonna sentence you to be back home in 40 days (40 days)