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Pride And The Badge
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Marty Robbins
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All night long, I tried to sleep but sleep refused to come
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'Cause today I knew, I'd either have to fight or run
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Knowin' if I choose to run my mind would never rest
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'Cause with so much pride, I wear this badge upon my vest
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Folks are filled with fear because there's three bad guns in town
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Sheriff Olsen made the wrong move and they shot him down
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One they called Dakota Jack and one El Paso Red
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The other just turned twenty and he's called the Killer Kid
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Good advice I get and that's to leave and run away
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But my pride and badge I wear, won't let me live this way
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And if I stay the three have bragged, they'll add me to their list
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But I have a different aim and I don't aim to miss
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From the doorway where I stand, I see the outlaws three
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Worried none because they know, the town's not helpin' me
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From a hundred yards away, I try a lucky shot
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Luck is with me and Dakota Jack dies on the spot
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Well a kid runs through the barroom door and Red goes up the stairs
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The Kid is ragin' mad, he's breakin' bottles, kickin' chairs
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And from a roof El Paso Red has vowed to pay me back
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As he views the lifeless body of Dakota Jack
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I can see him as he jumps from one roof to the next
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Searchin' for me but he has no idea where I'm at
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But I watch his every move, I'm ready when he leaps
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As I shoot him in mid air he crashes to the street
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Now there's one against just one, I've evened up the score
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Down the street I hear, a yell come through the barroom door
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The Kid has screamed, there's no way I can live unless I run
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Said, ‽There ain't no lawdog man enough to take his gunâ€
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Through the barroom door he walks and steps out on the street
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I can't match his draw, he's much too fast for me to beat
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And as I walk toward him, we both grab a forty five
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Maybe I will die today and he will stay alive
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Like a hammer somethin' hits me, spinnin' me around
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As I fall, I shoot him twice before he hits the ground
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His bullet missed me still I feel a burnin' in my chest
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His bullet hits the badge I wear with pride upon my vest
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As the people view the bodies of the lifeless three
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From their looks, I know exactly what they think of me
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To them I'm just a killer and they could not care less
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'Bout my pride or 'bout the badge, I wear upon my vest
Mr. Shorty
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