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Tall Handsome Stranger
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Marty Robbins
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A tall handsome stranger rode into town
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With fire in his eyes burning red as sundown
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His boots were all dusty, his coat open wide
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Six ways of dying hung low on his side
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He went in the town hall asking for me
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They told him that I was still town deputy
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I sent him to prison to pay for his crime
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He killed a guard on the Sante Fe line
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He spread word around town that my time had come
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My notch was already carved on his gun
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He's laughing and braggin and having his fun
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It's all a show for he knows I won't run
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That night in silence the town was asleep
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I sat by my window and looked down the street
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I wished in my heart that he would just ride away
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I hated to face him next sunup that day
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I met him at sunup, the crowd gathered round
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Waitin and watching for one to go down
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He grabbed for his six gun, tryin his best
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He cursed as my bullet went deep in his chest
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He stood there a moment and looked all around
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Slowly and lifeless he fell to the ground
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The stranger's my brother, born an outlaw
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He must have forgotton I taught him to draw
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The whole town was waiting and I was alone
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The blood that I spilled was just like my own
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When she hears this story, how Mother will cry
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Brother 'gainst brother and one had to die
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To die
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To die
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