I'd like some help with lyrics to a song that I heard on a 1991 cassette tape by the The Wandering Ramblers. The song is titled 44 Gun and here's some of the lyrics that I can understand:

Chorus:
Don't you remember on that rocky mountain side where we laid down to rest?
You promised to be my blue-eyed boy while the sun sank in the west?

Verses:
Now hand me down my old grey hat, it's a hangin' there on the nail.
By this time on tomorrow morn, I'll be gone on that long, long trail.

Now if you see me standin' on the porch, with a forty-four in my hand,
Just tell them all I killed myself, cuz you've gone to some foreign land.

There are couple more verses that I can't make sense of. Any help at all would be appreciated so that I can piece it together.

Thanks,

- Vicky