Req:Deacon's Bar/Sky Above The Mud Below(answered)

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Deacon's Bar
From: Jim Dixon
Date: 20 Nov 07 - 07:15 PM

This has to be THE SKY ABOVE, THE MUD BELOW by Tom Russell.

Isn't it funny how songs get to be known by different names?

Subject: Deacon's Bar Lyrics?
From:
Date: 10 Apr 99 - 01:47 PM

I heard a song sung by a man named Butch Crouch in Santa Fe, NM, called The Deacon's Bar, about two horse thieves from Mexico who meet their end at the hands of the local deacon. Does anyone know the lyrics?