lp discography - covers & lyrics

1.

SAN ANGELO

(Marty Robbins) « © '59 Mariposa Music, BMI / Unichappell Music, BMI »
North of the border of Old Mexico
I rode one day to the cowtown of San Angelo
A hot sun was glowin' a hot breeze was blowin'
Still not as warm as the lips that I waited to kiss

She sent a message a long time ago
Sicorra had promised to meet me in San Angelo
I was aware of the chance I was taking
I was an outlaw but great was my love for this girl

I must be with her I can't stay away
Nights spent without her are lonely and so are the days
If it means death then I'll have to chance it
Only a few minutes more and she'll be at my side

At ten o'clock in the morning
I tied my horse and I started to walk down the street
Where was Sicorra had she forgotten
This was the day and the hour that she wanted to meet
But something is wrong with our plans
And I fear death awaits me here on this hot dusty street

Upon a housetop but still I can see
There hides a man with a rifle it's pointed at me
I might escape from the man with the rifle
But there are others just like him that I cannot see

Back of each window the click of a gun
Die if I stay and my love for her won't let me run
Where is Sicorra will my eyes see her
Then in a moment she runs from a door down the street

Up on your horse she is crying
Ride out of town it's a trap and they're waiting fow you
But if I ride out she must ride with me
Then in a moment I know that our chances are gone
For a bullet is well on its waynd it finds my Sicorra
She dies as she falls in my arms

Over and over her soft lips did say
Now we're together I won't let them take you away
One little sigh her little lips tremble
Then it was over Sicorra had drifted away

Tears dim my vision but plainly I see
The ranger that killed her is standing there waiting for me
I rise to meet him my one thought is beat him
He deserves death and I swear that this ranger will die

I beat his draw and I shot him
Shot him six times just as fast the bullets could fly
My gun is empty no more I would shoot him
Now there are others just like him that want me to die
Their bullets are coming my way how they hurt when they hit me
The pain makes me fall to the ground

Gone is my strenght just the will left to fight
I hear the sound of the lead as it robs me of life
If I must die let me find Sicorra
Let me hold on to her hand for the few moments left

Blindly I search and it isn't in vain
I touch the soft velvet hands and it eases the pain
Life is no more but we're together
Even in death she's my lover it's over goodbye
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2.

MAN WALKS AMONG US

(Marty Robbins) « © '63 Mariposa Music, BMI / Unichappell Music, BMI »
Warm are the winds on the desert
A whirlwind is dancing around
I stop to survey all the beauty that's here
When a shadow moves out cross the ground
It's an eagle that circles above me
And he screams to his friends on the hill
Stay close together move not a feather
Man walks among us be still be still man walks among us be still

Everything hides but I see them I've spotted an old mother quail
I look close and see looking right back at me
The eyes of a young cottontail I see a coyote sneaking
As he crawls through the brush on the hill
And the eagle screams down stay close to the ground
Man walks among us be still be still man walks among us be still

Twenty feet high in the side of a cactus
I see a hole where the butcher bird stays
If mortals could choose and if heaven should ask us
Here's where I'd want to spend all of my days
Soon will be gone all the desert cities will cover each hill
Today will just be a fond memory man walks among us be still be still
Man walks among us be still
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3.

TALL HANDSOME STRANGER

(Henry Dorrough) « © '62 Mariposa Music, BMI »
A tall handsome stranger rode into town
With fire in his eyes burning red as sundown
His boots were all dusty his coat open wide
Six ways of dying hung low on his side

He went into townhall asking for me
They told him that I was still town deputy
I sent him to prison to pay for his crime
He killed the guard on the Santa Fe line

He spread word around town that my time had come
My notch was already carved on his gun
He's laughin' and braggin' and havin' his fun
It's all a show for he knows I won't run

At night in silence the town was alseep
Sat by my window and looked down the street
I wished in my heart that he'd just ride away
I hated to face him at sunup that day

I met him at sunup the crowd gathered round
A waitin' and watchin' for one to go down
He grabbed for his six gun tryin' his best
He cursed as my bullet went deep in his chest

He stood there a moment and looked all around
Slowly and lifelessly fell to the ground
The stranger's my brother born an outlaw
He must have forgotten I taught him to draw

The whole town was waitin' and I was alone
The blood that I was spilled was just like my own
When she hears this story how mother will cry
Brother gets brother and one had to die to die to die
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4.

DUSTY WINDS

(Joe Babcock) « © '62 Unichappell Music, BMI / Elvis Presley Music, BMI »
Ninety days since the country's seen a drop of rain
Fourty four since the grass begin to burn
Thirsty cattle are millin' round the old creek bed
Disty winds where the waters used to churn

Dusty winds hear them blow dusty winds moanin' low
Night and day on they go those dusty winds

Now a cloud in the sky but still the sun shines dim
But enough to turn the scenery dark and brown
Lookin' westward is a dust cloud loomin' high in the sky
Shows the trail of fifty settlers leavin' town

Dusty winds hear them blow...

When it's late in the evenin' in my cabin all alone
It's so lonesome when that wind comes howlin' through
And I think of all the settlers headin' west out of town
Kind of wish I had left here with them too

Dusty winds hear them blow...
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5.

MASTER'S CALL

(Marty Robbins) « © '59 Mariposa Music, BMI / Unichappell Music, BMI »
When I was but a young man I was wild and full of fire
A youth within my teens but full of challenge and desire
I ran away from home and left my mother and my dad
I know it grieved them so they take their only boy was bad

I fell in with an outlaw band their names were known quite well
How many times we robbed and plundered I could never tell
This kind and sinful livin' leads only to a fall
I learned that much and more the night I heard my Master call

One night we rustled cattle a thousand head or so
Started them out on the trail that leads to Mexico
But the norther started blowin' and lightnin' flashed about
I thought someone was callin' me I thought I heard a shout

At that moment lightnin' struck not twenty yards from me
And left there was a giant cross where once there was a tree
And this time I knew I heard a voice a voice so sweet and strange
A voice that came from everywhere a voice that called my name

So frightened I was thinkin' of sinful deeds I've done
I failed to see a thousand head of cattle start to run
The cattle they stampeded were runnin' all around
My pony ran but stumbled and it threw me to the ground

I felt the end was nearing that death would be the price
When a mighty bolt of lightnin' showed the face of Jesus Christ
And I cried oh Lord forgive me don't let it happen now
I wondered live for you alone oh God these words I vowed

My wicked past unfolded I thought of wasted years
When another bolt of lightnin' killed a hundred head of steers
And the others rushed on by me and I was left to live
The Master had a reason life is his to take or give

A miracle performed that night I wasn't meant to die
The dead ones formed a barricade at least six or seven high
Right behind it there was I afraid but safe and sound
I cried and begged for mercy kneelin' there upon the ground

A pardon I was granted my sinful soul set free
No more to fear the angry waves upon life's stormy sea
Forgiven by the love of God a love that will remain
I gave my life and soul the night the Saviour called my name
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6.

FASTEST GUN AROUND

(Jim Glaser - Jean Pruett) « © '63 Unichappell Music, BMI / Elvis Presley Music, BMI »
In the days of William Bonney better know as Bill the Kid
A young cowboy named Joey Steele was bout to make his bid
Well the heard one day that Bill thge Kid just rode into town
And if he could take him he would be fastest gun around

He was just a kid of seventeen but he had a lightin' hand
And he said it's time I showed the world that I've become a man
Everyone thinks Billy is the fastest gun around
But they will know I'm faster when they see me shoot him down

They finally came togehter down on Main Stret just at five
The people were all gathered wonderin' who'd be left alive
Billy knew that Joey wanted notches on his gun
And he wished that he could give him those he'd carved upon his own

Joey's hand went to his side he was sure that he had won
But before he even fired he saw the smoke of Billy's gun
And he felt the bullet hit him hard and before his eyes he saw
His wasted life pass quickly ending with this fatal draw

Billy breathed more easily and he put away his gun
And he tried to ease his conscience for the wrong that he had done
Then he saddled up his horse and headed westward out of town
And he wondered just how long he'd be the fastest gun around
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7.

OLD RED

(Marty Robbins) « © '63 Mariposa Music, BMI / Unichappell Music, BMI »
Old Red was one of the orneriest yet I've seen at the big rodeo
He's bite you and kick you and stomp out your life Old Red had never been rode
Meaner than sin wild as the wind that blew on the Montana plains
Old Red was one of the last of his breed and wasn't about to be tamed

From Idaho a young cowboy came to ride in the big rodeo
The young cowboy's name was Billy McClain and Billy had never been throwed

The greatest desire filled young Billy's heart to ride this old outlaw called Red
He drew him one day and I heard Billy say I'll ride him or drop over dead
Old Red was wicked down there in the chute he was kickin' and stompin' about
Billy dropped into the saddle with ease then yelled turn him loose let us out

Old Red came out with his head on the ground his back hooves were touching his nose
Tryin' to get rid of the man of his back but the man went wherever he'd go

Billy was rakin' Old Red with his spurs from his tail to the tip of his chin
He was doin' right well but Billy could tell this outlaw would never give in
Old Red was runnin' straight for the fence suddenly stopped in and then
He r'ared on his hind legs then fell on his back taking poor Billy with him

There was a hush in the crowd and they knew this would be Billy's last ride
The saddle horn crushed Billy's chest when they fell and under Old Red Billy died

Old Red lay still no more would he move the cowboys that seen it could tell
In tryin' to throw Billy off of his back old Red broke his neck when he fell

Out in the west is the place where they rest this cowboy that never was throwed
And one foot away resting there neath the clay is the outlaw that never was rode
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8.

BEND IN THE RIVER

(Marty Robbins) « © '62 Mariposa Music, BMI / Unichappell Music, BMI »
Past the first bend in the river is another bend I can't see
And the bend that keeps calling is the bend that keeps hiding from me

Past the first hill on the desert is another hill I can't see
And the hill that keeps hiding is the hill that keeps calling to me

In the cottonwood by the river a mourning dove calls his mate
He has true love to give her but love for me must wait

Till I've traveled every river and each desert hill I have climbed
If I find love to my liking I'll leave the river's bend far behind
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9.

JOHNNY FEDAVO

(Joe Babcock) « © '63 Mariposa Music, BMI »
Down in the little Mexican town of Nuevo
There lived a maiden lovely as a rose
Deep was the love of Lisa the Rose of Nuevo
For Johnny Fedavo and he loved her too
They made a vow that they'd always love each other
For them no other could be so true

Storm clouds swept in the life of Johnny Fedavo
The promise of heaven lasted for just a day
God needed someone to brighten his throne
Lisa was taken and Johnny was left all alone

That day in the little Mexican town of Nuevo
Sadly a village laid their Rose away
Johnny came home but no Lisa was there to meet him
No arms to gret him or hold him tight
Johnny prayed alone for God to hear it
To take his spirit away that night

Ten years passed by and no one saw Johnny Fedavo
The children grew and people were gay once more
One day they found him with hair snowy white
The rose in his hand was his message to Lisa that night

Down in the little Mexican town of Nuevo
Two lovers at last their peace with God have found
Deep was the love of Lisa the Rose of Nuevo
For Johnny Fedavo and he loved her too
There in the chapel shadows they both lay sleeping
Their vows still keeping and both still true
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10.

ABILENE ROSE

(James B. Hosale) « © '62 Unichappell Music, BMI »
All you young cowboys come gather around
I'll tell you a story of Abilene town
Of two young lovers as true lovers know
The girl in this story is Abilene Rose

Rose Rose Abilene Rose your mem'ry still lives in my heart
Rose Abilene Rose we promised we never would part

Rose was so pretty in her gingham gown
She was the fairest in Abilene town
Her eyes were as bright as the stars up above
Every one knew when she chose me to love

Rose Rose Abilene Rose...

We courted each other out under the moon
We planned to be married the first day of June
Then I started drinking and gambling you see
I broke her young heart and then she left me

Rose Rose Abilene Rose...

I got into trouble and had to leave town
Rose got married and then settled down
She was as happy as happy could be
With her young cowboy and their family

Rose Rose Abilene Rose...

This is the story I promised to tell
All you young cowboys remember it well
If you find true love don't tear it apart
Marry that true love don't break her young heart

Rose Rose Abilene Rose your mem'ry still lives in my heart
Rose Abilene Rose forever we must live apart
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11.

DOGGONE COWBOY

(Joe Babcock) « © '63 Mariposa Music, BMI »
I'm kin to the rovin' wind that brings the norther in
Along that dusty trail I'll take my stand
The steers are big and bold and the nights are often cold
But I'll get by so long as I can

Throw that rope and brand that calf dream of a girl in a photograph
I got no home I got no wife but I'll be a doggone cowboy all of my life

I'm up at the crack of dawn and I throw the bacon on
Seems somehow my work is never through
When I get done at night all the stars are big and bright
But then that's sorta what you're used to when you

Throw that rope and brand that calf...

The hot dry wind may blow and you'll see me in the rain and snow
With just an old campfire to keep me warm
I'll move the herd along and I'll greet them
With a song so I guess that I was born

To throw that rope and brand that calf...
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12.

RED HILLS OF UTAH

(Marty Robbins) « © '63 Mariposa Music, BMI / Unichappell Music, BMI »
How green are the valleys how tall are the trees
How cool are the rivers how soft is the breeze
If it's just like my dreams then I must go and see
For the Red Hills of Utah are calling me

So long I have waited since I was a child
Merely the thought keeps my heart running wild
I've waited so long now it's hard to believe
The Red Hills of Utah at last I will see

How pretty are flowers that bloom in the spring
How sweet are the songs the mockingbirds sing
If it's just like my dreams then I must go and see
For the Red Hills of Utah are calling me
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