The Fastest Gun Alive
Bob Terry
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I rode out of Amarillo headed west across the plains Two men who had challenged me in the dusty street they lay They said they come to gun me. I said they didn't have to die They said they'd taken pay to kill the fastest gun alive No rest since Killing the gunmen who'd been sent to take my land Now hunted for a bounty posted by a greedy man Death and loathing follow me no matter where I ride Ten years ago I'd earned the name The fastest gun alive Riding lonely places to avoid passers by I didn't think I'd see a soul But a shadow caught my eye Surrounded by miles of nothing She lay there in the sand What was a girl doing in this barren wasted land Startled when she saw me the Lass was so afraid Was I sent to take her back until her father paid I'm looking for work I told her true perhaps on a cattle drive But told her not my name or fame as the fastest gun alive Taken for ransom but in the night had slipped away Now the sun was rising and they'd find her in the day I told her not to worry I'd help and we should go I pulled her up behind me and through the dawn we rode Traveling over the prairie she told me of her story Their Ranch is the largest in the territory Riding all the day making camp late at night I let her sleep late not stirring her until the sun was bright. Three lawless men stepped from the brush and said she shouldn't run Now they'd just take her back and kill her friend for fun She stays says I no more will you kidnap or connive. They lay still they touched their guns against the fastest gun alive We rode all day and night bound to reach her home I prayed to God someday to settle and not roam Late with shadows dark around is when we arrived But fiends waited in the night to kill the fastest gun alive Dismounting to help her down my foot just touched the ground A shot in the dark struck me low spinning me around Both colts sprang to my hands no caitiff would survive Even if they too would kill the fastest gun alive Darkness filled with pistol smoke and lightning all around I was hit but couldn't quit till all knaves were down The night suddenly silent I'd done my best to survive My Strength fading fast I'll breath my last as the fastest gun alive An Angels voice I opened my eyes and looking all around The girl I'd saved had now saved me and all my wounds were bound I mended fast and church bells rang but did not give her my name The one I gave her was new to me and without any fame All my prayers are answered for the life that I've craved In the graveyard there's a headstone but nobody's in the grave But when a mortal sees the stone that's not what they derive My names there and it's carved He was the fastest gun alive There's my old name and it's carved he was the fastest gun alive
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