I?a man who?goin?o hell with heaven?blessing
The judge said I?not fit to live with men
They? building me a gallows in the courtyard
To make sure I don?pass this way again
My first taste of killin?as at Vicksburg
I must have shot me a hundred men
I learned to make my livin?ith a six-gun
I?an outlaw now but I was a hero then
Lord if I had only known the misery
That glory?somethin?ot worth killin?or
I wish now I had never touched the handle
Of a Hairtrigger Colt .44
I was a hunted desperado
A wanted man with a price on my head
I thought that I could steal a taste of freedom
I got me a hangman?noose instead
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Undertaker write on my tombstone
A killer finally killed and nothin?ore
I wouldn?be here if it hadn?been for Providence
And a Hairtrigger Colt .44
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