Fastest Gun Alive

Thunder in the canyon

Up a two track road

The kind that I've been down a couple times before

Late in the spring

Just below the timber line

I got stoned on a bottle of bluebird wine

Down on the creek

Where the crystal water flows

Thought I saw my life in the mountain snow

Then I fell asleep

From the sun of a midday heat

Dreamt about the title I had won

Never been to heaven

But I've had one foot in hell

Spent my share of nights in the county jail

Weren't too far behind me

Coming up ahead

Was the memory of the sweetest thing she said

Down on the creek

Where the crystal water flows

Thought I saw my life in the mountain snow

Then I fell asleep

From the sun of a midday heat

Dreamt about the title I had won

Fastest gun alive

I've been wanted all of my life

I can't change these things I've done

Please forgive my tears in the sun

Raining on the mesa

But I can see the sky

In the mountains that won't tell me the reason why

Down on the creek

Where the crystal water flows

Thought I saw my life in the mountain snow

Then I fell asleep

From the sun of a midday heat

Dreamt about the title I had won

Fastest gun alive

I've been wanted all of my life

I can't change these things I've done

Please forgive my tears in the sun

Lord forgive my tears in the sun