Tall Handsome Stranger

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A tall handsome stranger rode into
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 town
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With fire in his eyes burning red 
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as sundown
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His boots were all dusty, his coat 
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open wide
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Six ways of dying hung low on 
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his side

He went in the town hall asking for 
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me
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They told him that I was still 
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town deputy
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I sent him to prison to pay for his
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 crime
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He killed a guard on the Sante Fe
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 line

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He spread word around town that my 
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time had come
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My notch was already carved on his
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 gun
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He's laughing and braggin and 
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having his fun
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It's all a show for he knows I 
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won't run

BRIDGE

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That night in silence the town was
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 asleep
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I sat by my window and looked down 
the street
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I wished in my heart that he would 
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just ride away
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I hated to face him next sunup 
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that day

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I met him at sunup, the crowd 
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gathered round
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Waitin and watching for one to go 
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down
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He grabbed for his six gun, tryin 
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his best
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He cursed as my bullet went deep 
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in his chest

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He stood there a moment and looked 
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all around
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Slowly and lifeless he fell to 
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the ground
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The stranger's my brother, born an 
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outlaw
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He must have forgotton I taught 
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him to draw

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The whole town was waiting and I 
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was alone
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The blood that I spilled was just
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 like my own
When she hears this story, how 
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Mother will cry
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Brother 'gainst brother and one 
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had to die