《Old Tom Horn》歌词

[00:00:02] Old Tom Horn - Chris Ledoux

[00:00:06] Now back in old Wyoming

[00:00:07] Many long years ago

[00:00:10] When there was no law and

[00:00:12] Order 'round to regulate the show

[00:00:15] Those old Wyoming ranchers

[00:00:17] Had a problem on their hands

[00:00:20] Trying to keep the cow thieves

[00:00:22] And the rustlers off their land

[00:00:26] Now old Tom Horn

[00:00:27] Came a riding up one day

[00:00:30] Gonna lend a hand to

[00:00:31] The cattlemen in his own peculiar way

[00:00:34] Well he took his 44-40 out

[00:00:36] And cleaned it up right well

[00:00:38] Then he rode off down

[00:00:40] Dry Gulch with a sack of rifle shells

[00:00:44] Old Tom Horn with a rifle by his side

[00:00:49] Through the hills of Wyoming

[00:00:51] He would ride

[00:00:54] There ain't no tellin'

[00:00:55] How many cattle thieves he killed

[00:00:57] But it was God help the rustler

[00:00:59] When Tom Horn was in the hill

[00:01:03] If you rode the Laramie Valley

[00:01:05] By either day or night

[00:01:07] You can be right sure

[00:01:08] He's watchin' you through his rifle sights

[00:01:11] He laid out in the bushes

[00:01:13] And the rustler come around

[00:01:16] Then he'll spill the boy

[00:01:17] With a single shot and chamber one more round

[00:01:21] Now the rustlers tried to stop him

[00:01:24] But they found there was no way

[00:01:26] He could pick them off from

[00:01:27] A mountain side a half mile away

[00:01:30] Well they ran him down the border

[00:01:32] But they never touched his hide

[00:01:34] He just slipped across to his

[00:01:36] Hide out on the Colorado side

[00:01:40] Old Tom Horn with a rifle by his side

[00:01:44] Through the hills of Wyoming

[00:01:47] He would ride

[00:01:49] There ain't no tellin' how many

[00:01:51] Cattle thieves he killed

[00:01:53] But it was God help the rustler

[00:01:55] When Tom Horn was in the hill

[00:01:59] Then one day young Willie Nickle

[00:02:01] Was out a ridin' around

[00:02:03] A 44-40 shot rang out and

[00:02:05] Laid the poor boy down

[00:02:08] Well it was only fourteen years

[00:02:10] Since that little kid was born

[00:02:13] And they said it looked like the

[00:02:15] Doing's of that lonesome Tom Horn

[00:02:18] So the cattlemen went and strung him up

[00:02:21] With a length of fresh snipped rope

[00:02:23] But his ghost still hangs out in the hills

[00:02:25] And spooks the Antelope

[00:02:28] Now all the rustlers hatred and

[00:02:30] All the cattlemen's fears

[00:02:32] Have kept all Tom Horn alive

[00:02:34] Through all the changing years

[00:02:38] Old Tom Horn with a rifle by his side

[00:02:42] Through the hills of Wyoming he would ride

[00:02:47] There ain't no tellin' how many

[00:02:49] Cattle thieves he killed

[00:02:50] But it was God help the rustler

[00:02:53] When Tom Horn was in the hill