Tall Handsome Stranger
A tall handsome stranger rode into town
With fire in his eyes burning red as sundown
His boots were all dusty, his coat open wide
Six ways of dying hung low on his side
He went in the town hall asking for me
They told him that I was still town deputy
I sent him to prison to pay for his crime
He killed a guard on the Santa Fe line
He spread word around town that my time had come
My notch was already carved on his gun
He's laughin' and braggin' and having his fun
It's all a show for he knows I won't run
That night in silence the town was asleep
I sat by my window and looked down the street
I wished in my heart that he'd just ride away
I hated to face him at sunup that day
I met him at sunup, the crowd gathered 'round
Awaitin' and watchin' for one to go down
He grabbed for his six-gun, tryin' his best
He cursed as my bullet went deep in his chest
He stood there a moment and looked all around
Slowly and lifeless, he fell to the ground
The stranger's my brother, born an outlaw
He must have forgotten I taught him to draw
The whole town was waitin' and I was alone
The blood that I spilled was just like my own
When she hears this story, how mother will cry
Brother 'gainst brother and one had to die
To die, to die
With fire in his eyes burning red as sundown
His boots were all dusty, his coat open wide
Six ways of dying hung low on his side
He went in the town hall asking for me
They told him that I was still town deputy
I sent him to prison to pay for his crime
He killed a guard on the Santa Fe line
He spread word around town that my time had come
My notch was already carved on his gun
He's laughin' and braggin' and having his fun
It's all a show for he knows I won't run
That night in silence the town was asleep
I sat by my window and looked down the street
I wished in my heart that he'd just ride away
I hated to face him at sunup that day
I met him at sunup, the crowd gathered 'round
Awaitin' and watchin' for one to go down
He grabbed for his six-gun, tryin' his best
He cursed as my bullet went deep in his chest
He stood there a moment and looked all around
Slowly and lifeless, he fell to the ground
The stranger's my brother, born an outlaw
He must have forgotten I taught him to draw
The whole town was waitin' and I was alone
The blood that I spilled was just like my own
When she hears this story, how mother will cry
Brother 'gainst brother and one had to die
To die, to die
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Writer(s): Henry Dorrough
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