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Intro 1
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Verse 1
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out from old Fort Hays alone
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Thinking about the one left behind
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But not for long he was gone
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James Butler Hickok was his name
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Or why old Saints he
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never liked to kill
The youngest son of a
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Baptist preacher man
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His mama said, don't take up the gun
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Or you're always on the run
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Don't go, James, she cried
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And he told her that he wouldn't,
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I'm looking for my fortune
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They say that far west it's open wild
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So he started off across
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the endless plains
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And he soon became a jack of every trade
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But some men are born to think
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Nickels came to Spring
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field ridin' high
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Lookin' for a dime store gal ahead
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Bill was all we had
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Six foot three and a tall Prince Albert frock
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He let his blonde hair flow down behind
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Two ivory -handled pistols at his side
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As they built a le gend around his hair
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They stared at him like Son
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night on the town
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Agnes Lake was a beauty so they say
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Bill in old Cheyenne
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He soon won her hand
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Nearly blind he married her that spring
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Their love like the fragrant blossoms grew
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Deep inside she knew
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Don't go Bill, she cried
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And he told her that he wouldn't,
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We could make a fortune in
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the Black Dakota hills
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Where reputation keeps a man alive
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She never saw that man again alive
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Jack McCall was a drifter and a bum
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He shot Bill in the back of the head
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He sentenced the dead man's hand
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The legend and the man are not the same
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The man died in Deadwood, oh no
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The legend still lives on
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Outro 1
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