Lyrics

GUNSLINGER (Skibbe)
© 2016, Coyote Tongue Music (ASCAP)

Rode into town on a cloud of dust
Hit them swinging doors like a cowboy must
Don’t remember much, just smoke and beer

I woke up in a striped outfit
Ten long months ‘til I was out of it
How was I to know smoke was illegal down here?

One hundred thousand giant green saguaros
Every looming one is giving me the finger
Sand swallows every buck you can beg steal or borrow
Hoo! Look out Billy The Kid
I’m a gunslinger, a gunslinger Oooh Hooo!

I did my time and I settled down
Got a little place on the edge of town
I fought and I loved until she said yes

But all things pass, life is rough
One busted night we’d both had enough
Now she and the javelinas took everything that I had left

One hundred thousand giant green saguaros
Every looming one is giving me the finger
Sand swallows every buck you can beg steal or borrow
Hoo! Look out Billy The Kid
Here comes a gunslinger, I’m a gunslinger, a gunslinger Oooh Hooo!

Now I’m doing life in this dive bar
Drinking double whiskeys, playing guitar
Tryin’ to pay my tab from the old tip jar

While one hundred thousand giant green saguaros
Every looming one giving me the finger
Sand swallows every buck you can beg steal or borrow
Hoo! Look out Billy The Kid
I’m a gunslinger, a gunslinger
I’m a gunslinger, a gunslinger
We’re all gunslingers
Gunslingers Oooh Hoooo!