| Meridith come over in a hurry
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| Cause theres indian billy john to the gallows
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| She runs to hanks' salloon in a hurry
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| Sees the lawmen sitting there nothing to worry
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| Forteen banks and thirteen cold blooded murders
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| The lawnman is laying down her …
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| He says darling 'you know we keep law and order
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| And let this be a warning to all his hellraising men'
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| The junifine street was packed at the town hall door
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| They had him on a footstool with the news around his neck
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| Sit draw a breath and hold it tight
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| As forgiveness of the people maybe the lord could you slide
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| Then you keep that foot stool from beneath the soles of his feet
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| Then he saw into the light from te dark end of the street
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| Mamma cried, mamma cried you feel al that weak
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| He wasn’t born mean it was others that made him mean
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| They buried him a mile of ten from the bottom of the creek
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| Just an old rusty town simontary
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| Mamma dont come to visit, and it kills me
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| She puts on her evening gall and works the dark hour streets
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| Keeps the whiskey in her veins to carry
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| The death of Outlaw Billy Johns memory
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| Keeps the whishkey in her veins to carry
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| The death of Outlaw Billy Johns legendary memory |