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The Way of the Gun

from You'll Never Take Us Alive! by BeerGnomes

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When I was back in school I liked to call it like I saw
some said I called it like I saw right on a wall
but that penmanship weren't mine although it wasn't out of line
I'm not inclined to take the fall for another's crime
I gave him up to clear my name, but I was punished all the same
did he expect of me that I would play his game
well he came at me with a knife and so I all but took his life
and it was me who got expelled for all my strife

At the age of fifteen, I got into a fight
with a man twice my size, turned out his light
well he didn't take to kind, one day he jumped me from behind
but five bullets in his chest is what he'd find

so my paw he told me run he said the army's gonna come
don't wanna see my son with a rope around his throat
so in hiding I did stay, those bastards found me anyway
and by that fall I'd sent four men into their graves

Was on the run that I became a school teacher by trade
I had escaped my outlaw ways to live a lie
but I could not turn down a bet, although sometimes I do regret
for a bottle of booze I'd shoot out some fool's eye
was in Hill County playing cards, some fellow thought I'd gone too far
he said that he would cut me up if I kept on
though I did not desire to fight, he'd come to find me late that night
he'd lose his life to me before the break of dawn

so my girl she told me run she said the law is gonna come
don't wanna see my man with a rope around his throat
but I was captured by surprise, I'd kill the law by firelight
and by morning with my freedom reunite

So I grew up strong and mean, the greatest shot you've ever seen
eventually I would uphold that law star's gleam
and I'd have plenty of friends and on them I could depend
and a woman who's honor I'd defend

and I would give up on the run to me no harm was gonna come
no one wants to see a rope around my throat
but I was shot down in the street and not one angel came to meet
my soul that to this day lies six feet deep

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from You'll Never Take Us Alive!, released June 29, 2012

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