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Thread #37433   Message #522250
Posted By: Mad4Mud
06-Aug-01 - 08:04 PM
Thread Name: Lyr /Chords: Gunslinger (from The Limeliters)
Subject: Lyr Add: GUNSLINGER (sung by The Limeliters)
Hi, it's me Guest,Karen but at home I've just recently become Mad4Mud. Anyway I promised I'd listen to the CD when I got home from work and, wouldn't you know it?, I forgot I lent it to my brother. So from memory I'll give you what I know. I am a little unsure about the order of the verses but maybe someone else can tell if they're out of order. Here goes:

GUNSLINGER (....at least what I can remember!)

Gunslinger...
Gunslinger...
Gunslinger...
Gunslinger!

Gunslinger, gunslinger,
Why you act so long?
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 [and now] you wanna settle down.
But other gunslingers are a-gunnin' for you,
And a man's gotta do what a man's gotta do, old buddy.
[Old buddy, old buddy]

Yippee-i-ay,
Yippee-i-oh.

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 tonight, Gunslinger.
[Gunslinger, gunslinger]
Last night [last night] you cried out 'Mommy dear!'
You've got a recurrent dream in your craw,
And that dream of your ma 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,
And that killin' a man is real immature.
It is just an attention-getting device.
Gunslinger!

Out in the West the folks all believe,
You've faced and killed the toughest hombres of your day.
But time has exposed your feet of clay.
Recent research has clearly shown,
That ninety-three point six percent of the gunmen you've killed...
Were simply accident-prone!
Gunslinger!!

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