![Murrietta's Head - Dave Alvin](https://cdn.muztext.com/i/32847536981683925347.jpg)
Date of issue: 16.04.2012
Record label: BlueHornToad
Song language: English
Murrietta's Head |
Come on and saddle up boys cause the governor said |
He’ll pay three thousand dollars for Murrietta’s Head |
I hear Joaquin Murrietta’s steals horses and gold |
Killed a sheriff in Mariposa or so I’m told |
He’s the Devil’s bloody bastard, wicked and no good |
But all the Mexican’s swear that’s he’s Robin Hood |
Well, with my wife and my sons I work as hard as I can |
On thirteen acres of California land |
But the rains never came and I got debts I can’t pay |
Now the banks gonna steal my farm away |
So, come on and saddle up, boys, cause the governor said |
He’ll pay three thousand dollars for Murrietta’s Head |
He don’t want him alive, he wants him dead |
He’ll pay three thousand dollars for Murrietta’s Head |
I hear Joaquin Murrietta rides to avenge |
The murder of his wife by a mob of drunk men |
Well, I don’t give a damn if it’s a lie of if it’s true |
Cause for his family ain’t much a man won’t do |
You see the fever came around and my youngest boy took ill |
And I didn’t have money to pay no doctor’s bills |
So I buried his body beneath that oak on the hill |
But if I had some money I swear he’d be alive still |
So, come on and saddle up, boys, cause the governor said |
He’ll pay three thousand dollars for Murrietta’s Head |
He don’t want him alive, he wants him dead |
He’ll pay three thousand dollars for Murrietta’s Head |
Now the Bible says, you reap what you sow |
That may be right but I really don’t know |
Well, if it is Murrietta will be damned to Hell |
And when I kill him, I’ll be damned as well |
So, come on and saddle up, boys, cause the governor said |
He’ll pay three thousand dollars for Murrietta’s Head |
He don’t want him alive, he wants him dead |
He’ll pay three thousand dollars for Murrietta’s Head |
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