Ballad Of The Self Loading Pistol

Intro:      Father I have come to tell you about something I done      Well as the night reared its light head into a baby’s sun We rolled down into the town from where the Black Throats come   And you know there was a robbery there was a holdup    Oh there was a shootout and there was a killing And there’s blood on my hands Today I killed a man       Well now sister you know me well                And you ask me well how it was I felt          Well she had an appetite for loving only a fading beauty could possess She knew just what she wanted and she wouldn’t take less    I figured it was a small town it was at sundown   It was just a small crowd of people around       Oh but he wouldn’t put his guns down No he wouldn’t put his guns down Woah he wouldn’t put his guns down Now his blood’s on my hands Today I killed a man       And papa you showed me the beauty of buckshot The love song a bullet sings as she whistles And showed me the story of the self-loading pistol   Well now father I have come to tell you about something I done He had a widow running through town screaming         He had a brother and his tears were streaming         Now I’m moving on the border with a rifle on my shoulder ’Cause daddy you showed me the beauty of buckshot      The love song a bullet sings as she whistles And showed me the story of the self-loading pistol   And I just come to tell you that it don’t hurt no more   No it don’t hurt no more ’cause your son he’s an outlaw Oh your son he’s an outlaw     Yes your son he’s an outlaw     Oh your son he’s an outlaw     Now your son he’s an outlaw    Oh your son he’s an outlaw     Now his blood feels good on my hands Today I killed a man