Key: C major•
Verse 1
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This is a song
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I think. think it's a Western
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number.
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Well, the architect angel
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just a dirty mile down on the borderline
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And hustled young cattle for slaughter,
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And dated Judah's daughter.
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From the cellar ways to the attics,
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And all across the plains,
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broke electric static of a religious strain
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and though he was not an addict
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he wore scars upon his veins
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Like a young girl holds her first pimp,
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he held his Bible limp.
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Oh, from desert bars and church bazaars,
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the hungry slowly came.
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from vulgar places looking for a game.
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With ivory gun handles
and chamber grease
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in souped up hydroplanes,
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bearing great cowboys names.
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Fourteen inches of gun barrel
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and he was smoking from the lid.
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Spurs on straight black boot heels,
he said,
uptown they call me the
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Brooklyn Kid.
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And in his lonely zenith, nightmares,
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that's just what they did.
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like a hot kid's sister.
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Tied tight to his leg like he was gonna do.
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He was stomping a step
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he called the Brooklyn Twister.
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with six guns pumping
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and his tongue hung low
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in the sawdust scraping
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he crawled up outside the
Judah ranch
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an gel names.
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Now the architect angel
stood in one hand a staff
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and in the other a gun.
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The gun was like a piece in the sun.
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Drew fast, and the job was done.
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That night, the moon stretched
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tight light down on the plains
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as real cowboys sat around
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And the county wolf called as
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if to explain to his son,
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oh, the way the West was won.
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