Key: C minor
Intro 1
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Verse 1
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Horseback Jesus rode into town
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Looking for a bath and a shave
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So many scars down across his back
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They thought he was a runaway slave
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They wouldn't let
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So he spent the night out under the moon
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It's like nothing nobody ever heard
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All the people start to gather round
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To listen to the song he sang
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By six o 'clock that morning it rained
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He said that he was just passing through
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Cactus Jack come out the border so low
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He said, who let Cochise off the rez?
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Cactus Jack said,
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his arms out wide
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And he preached the world
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Stranger crumpled down in the dust
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Cactus Jack said, how dare you son
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Try to take our sins from us
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Horseback Jesus was so close to death
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Sheriff said, go bury that Jew
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Horseback Jesus drew a final breath,
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they know not what to do, oh no,
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they know not what they do.
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They buried him in a shallow cave
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At the south edge of Cavalry Hill
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But some they sing his gospel still
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Legends live on like Billy the Kid
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Some are just wind on the sand
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And if you go down to Chudawares,
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of that man who preached the word.
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that turned into a dove like a hater in love.
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He sent a prayer up to his father above
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