Song information On this page you can find the lyrics of the song Old Tom Horn, artist - Chris Ledoux. Album song He Rides The Wild Horses, in the genre Поп
Date of issue: 31.12.1990
Record label: Capitol Records Nashville
Song language: English
Old Tom Horn |
Now back in old Wyoming many long years ago |
When there was no law and order round to regulate the show |
Those old Wyoming ranchers had a problem on their hands |
Trying to keep the cow thieves and the rustlers off their land |
Now old Tom Horn came a riding up one day |
Gonna lend a hand to the cattlemen in his own peculiar way |
Well he took his 44−40 out and cleaned it up right well |
Then he rode off down Dry Gulch with a sack of rifle shells |
Old Tom Horn with a rifle by his side through the hills of Wyoming he would ride |
There ain’t no tellin' how many cattle thieves he killed |
But it was God help the rustler when Tom Horn was in the hill |
If you rode the Larame Valley by either day or night |
You can be right sure he’s watchin' you through his rifle sights |
He laid out in the bushes and the rustler come around |
Then he’ll spill the boy with a single shot and chamber one more round |
Now the rustlers tried to stop him but they found there was no way |
He could pick them off from a mountain side a half mile away |
Well they ran him down the border but they never touched his hide |
He just slipped across to his hide out on the Colorado side |
Old Tom Horn with a rifle… |
Then one day young Willie Nickle was out a ridin' around |
A 44−40 shot rang out and laid the poor boy down |
Well it was only fourteen years since that little kid was born |
And they said it looked like the doing’s of that lonesome Tom Horn |
So the cattlemen went and strung him up with a length of fresh snipped rope |
But his ghost still hangs out in the hills and spooks the Antelope |
Now all the rustlers hatred and all the cattlemen’s fears |
Have keep all Tom Horn alive through all the changing years |
Old Tom Horn with a rifle… |