Will's Crossing chords by Nat Stuckey

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Verse 1
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I've never known
the good feelin' of money
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I work like a dog for my father's farm
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Always told me beware the city
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But how could a Saturday
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dance do me harm?
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I wanted her so, but she soon let me know
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That a penny to Sodbuster
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hadn't the chance
And I swore that I wouldn't
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be poor anymore
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So I took Popper's pistol,
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walked into Will's Closet
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And I faced Dover Flint in the General Store
I pulled him to reach him
in the drawer full of money
But he reached and I pulled
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out a pistol instead
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In a flash of a wink
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and before I could think
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I pulled my own trigger
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and I watched him fall
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In the darkness behind me
The men from Wells Crossing,
off the road to my left,
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there's a shrill siren's call.
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The bushes reach out
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an d my pants try to hold me.
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The rocks on the ground
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tear my hands when I fall.
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When we're clearing our way,
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the men from Wells Crossing,
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the posse surrounded me,
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no use to run.
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Then just to my right
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there's the crack of a rifle
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And I see Poppa's face
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in the flesh of the gun
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I   open my eyes and
they're gathered round me
And Poppa's down on
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his knees by my side
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The bullet he fired
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has settled deep in my body
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But I could tell that it was Papa,
really, they'd died
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In the dim afternoon's light
Papa closed his eyes tight
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And the last I  remembered
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was my Papa cried you