Artist: | Johnny Cash (English) |
User: | Waeller Wutz |
Duration: | 130 seconds |
Delay: | 12 seconds |
Chord names: | Default |
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Comment: | - |
Titel: Don't Take Your Guns To Town
Artist: Johnny Cash
Album: The Fabulous Johnny Cash (1958)
(John R. Cash)
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A young cowboy named Billy Joe grew restless on the farm
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A boy filled with wanderlust who really meant no harm
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He changed his clothes and shined his boots and combed his dark hair down
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And his mother cried as he walked out
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Don't take your guns to town son
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Leave your guns at home Bill
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Don't take your guns to town
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He laughed and kissed his mom and said, "your Billy Joe's a man"
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I can shoot as quick and straight as anybody can
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But I wouldn't shoot without a cause; I'd gun nobody down"
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But she cried again as he rode away
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Don't take your guns to town son
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Leave your guns at home Bill
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Don't take your guns to town
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He sang a song as on he rode his guns hung at his hips
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He rode into a cattle town, a smile upon his lips
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He stopped and walked into a bar and laid his money down
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But his mother's words echoed again
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Don't take your guns to town son
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Leave your guns at home Bill
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Don't take your guns to town
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He drank his first strong liquor then to calm his shaking hand
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And tried to tell himself at last he had become a man
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A dusty cowpoke at his side began to laugh him down
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And he heard again his mothers words
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Don't take your guns to town son
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Leave your guns at home Bill
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Don't take your guns to town
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Filled with rage then Billy Joe reached for his gun to draw
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But the stranger drew his gun and fired before he even saw
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As Billy Joe fell to the floor, the crowd all gathered 'round
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And wondered at his final words
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Don't take your guns to town son
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Leave your guns at home Bill
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Don't take your guns to town