GUNSLINGER
(Bud Freeman & Leon Prober)

Gunslinger, gunslinger, gunslinger, gunslinger,

Gunslinger, gunslinger, where did you go wrong?
When you were a child, did the Cheyenne and Sioux
Refuse to play nicely with you?
Did you always feel you didn't belong?
Gunslinger.

You've killed one hundred and thirty men, old buddy.
[Gunslinger, gunslinger]
And now you want to settle down.
But other gunslingers are a-gunnin' for you,
And a man's gotta do what a man's gotta do.
Old buddy.

Gunslinger, gunslinger, why you act so strange?
When you were a child were you forced to compete
With brothers that you never could beat?
Did you come from a broken home on the range?
Old buddy.
Don't wear your guns in town today, old buddy.
[Gunslinger, gunslinger]

Last night you cried out "Mommy dear!"
You've got a recurrent dream in your craw
And that dream of your maw will inhibit your draw, old buddy.
Old buddy, old buddy
Yippee-i-ay,
Yippee-i-oh.

Gunslinger, gunslinger, please take my advice.
You know in your mind that you're plumb insecure,
But killin' a man is real immature.
It is just an attention-getting device.
Gunslinger.

There you lie dead in the dust, old buddy.
Ooolllllllld buddy!
And now your myth begins.

Out in the west, the folks all believe
You faced and killed the toughest hombres of your day
But time has exposed your feet of clay.
Recent research has clearly shown
That 93.6% of the gunmen you killed
were simply accident-prone gunslingers.

http://jdgrp7.tripod.com/Limeliters.htm

Rick, Home, Bowie, MD, Monday, 24 December 2007, 1041 EST

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