Key:
Introduction:
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Good evening to you mister, the bounty hunter said
Dm C A7
You don't know me but I know there's a price upon your head
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I know you're wanted dead or alive that's what the posters say
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But I never shoot a man at night when he ain't had time to pray
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So I'll give you until sunrise tomorrow my friend
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Before I come to shoot you down and bring your body in
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I warn you that I do my work quite well with a gun or knife
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I've tracked down many a man, I've taken many a life
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Father do not mourn for me, Mother do not weep
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Whatever a man soweth, that also shall he reap
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I spent a long and sleepless night with fear upon my breast
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Tryin' to get ready for my morning duel with death
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I hid up in a hay loft out on the edge of town
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And at sunrise the bounty hunter came to shoot me down.
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I fired down at the bounty hunter standing in the street.
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He raised his gun, and fired a round of shots back up at me
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He hit my chest and shoulder and my gun flew from my hand.
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Now I'm trapped up in this hay loft, a wounded unarmed man.
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Father do not mourn for me, Mother do not weep
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Whatever a man soweth, that also shall he reap
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The bounty hunter holds his fire and hollers up at me
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Come out and take it like a man I'll make it quick and clean
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I know my time is runnin' out there's no way I can stall
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So I reach and grab the pitch fork that's hanging on the wall
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My body arches as I stretch to face the rising sun
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And I feel like a warriors bow freshly carved and strung
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I launch my body through the air the pitch fork in my hand
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Stabs the bounty hunter through the chest pins him to the sand
F G Dm A7
Now my muscles start to rust my thoughts are growing cold
Dm
While Gabriel and Satan shoot craps for my soul