| When I was just a kid back in Abeline
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| I had to use a gun, well for my own sake
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| I shot a man down when I was just eighteen
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| And from that day they call me Shaky Jake.
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| Shaky Jake, boy, what you gonna do?
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| Texas Rangers coming after you
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| Here’s the price you pay for one mistake
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| So get off the streets, it’s Shaky Jake.
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| Ma says I was born under bad sign
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| I was lookin' for the chance to make or break
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| I cut my teeth on a brandin' iron
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| I’m the devil’s own son, I’m Shaky Jake.
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| Shaky Jake, boy, what you gonna do?
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| Texas Rangers coming after you
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| Here’s the price you pay for one mistake
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| So get off the streets, it’s Shaky Jake.
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| I keep on the run now
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| I travel by night
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| I don’t need anyone
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| But someone, one day, somewhere’s gonna see me right.
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| Dig a hole about six foot deep
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| Pray the Lord my soul to take
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| I don’t want flowers and nobody’s gonna weep
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| Here lies that outlaw, Shaky Jake.
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| Oh Shaky Jake, boy, what you gonna do?
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| Texas Rangers coming after you
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| Here’s the price you pay for one mistake
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| So get off the streets, it’s Shaky Jake.
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| Shakey Jake
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| Shakey Jake
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| Shakey Jake
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| Shakey Jake
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| Shakey Jake
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| Shakey Jake.
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| Oh Shaky Jake, boy, what you gonna do?
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| Texas Rangers coming after you
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| Here’s the price you pay for one mistake
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| So get off the streets, it’s Shaky Jake. |