There ain't no judge, no jury down around El Paso Hangman posse blazing my trail before I get to Mexico Thirteen guns were tracking, 'side the Rio Grande they rode About a debt I owe, yeah!
Through the heat of the desert sun underneath a blackbird's wing I keeping one step ahead of the gun Or I'll be stretching my neck in a noose Doing the hangman swing
Sheriff wants to lynch me for what I did to his wife Well how was I to know it was her, but it damn sure was nice Now they want to see me dancing on the end of a rope About a debt I owe, yeah!
Through the heat of the desert sun underneath a blackbird's wing I keeping one step ahead of the gun Or I'll be stretching my neck in a noose Doing the hangman swing
Found me about a half day's ride from the border of Mexico Put a bullet 'twixt my blades and my neck in a rope
Through the heat of the desert sun underneath a blackbird's wing I keeping one step ahead of the gun Or I'll be stretching my neck in a noose Doing the hangman swing
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