Is quicker than a light
Wes Hardin is his name
They say he travels in the night
For he might have to kill
Or walk around a fight
And if you ever saw Wes Hardin draw
You know he can skin his gun
He won't say how many tried and died
Up against the top hand
Up against the wrong man
'Cause Hardin wouldn't run
He rode in like a Texas wind
Took the East bound train
Goin', goin' with Jane Bowen
Till the lawmen caught up
So long Janie chin up
I'll be back again
Off he went to Huntsville prison
"So long Janie", he cried
Fifteen years she waited
Till her heart broke and she died
And she left that bad land
To wait up in the sky
Free at last the payin' past
For all the wrong he did
First free air they let him breathe
Since he was a kid
So let him come and let him go
And let him deal, and bid
Near the border in El Paso
Lawyer reads the sign
You won't find him there for business
Every day at nine
For business is real bad one client's
All he's had in quite a long long time
Then Sheriff Selman's boy
Broke in to Wes's woman's place
Up she jumped and pistol
Whipped him kicked him in the face
And John Selman demands
Revenge for this disgrace
You could see every night
By candlelight in Hardin's favorite bar
She'd be hanging on his arm
And very late they'd leave there
Headed for the goose hair
Glad it wasn't far
Right through the swinging doors
John Selman came with a blazin' gun
Wes Hardin chug a luggin' red eye
Got him in the back of the head
John Wesley Hardin fell dead
Hardin wouldn't run
I know a man whose plow handle hand Is quicker than a light Wes Hardin is his name They say he travels in the night For he might have to kill Or walk around a fight And if you ever saw Wes Hardin draw You know he can skin his gun He won't say how many tried and died Up against the top hand Up against the wrong man 'Cause Hardin wouldn't run He rode in like a Texas wind Took the East bound train Goin', goin' with Jane Bowen Till the lawmen caught up So long Janie chin up I'll be back again Off he went to Huntsville prison "So long Janie", he cried Fifteen years she waited Till her heart broke and she died And she left that bad land To wait up in the sky Free at last the payin' past For all the wrong he did First free air they let him breathe Since he was a kid So let him come and let him go And let him deal, and bid Near the border in El Paso Lawyer reads the sign You won't find him there for business Every day at nine For business is real bad one client's All he's had in quite a long long time Then Sheriff Selman's boy Broke in to Wes's woman's place Up she jumped and pistol Whipped him kicked him in the face And John Selman demands Revenge for this disgrace You could see every night By candlelight in Hardin's favorite bar She'd be hanging on his arm And very late they'd leave there Headed for the goose hair Glad it wasn't far Right through the swinging doors John Selman came with a blazin' gun Wes Hardin chug a luggin' red eye Got him in the back of the head John Wesley Hardin fell dead Hardin wouldn't run Explain Request ×
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