Loaded Gun

from Tattered Map by Michael Sessoms

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“Loaded Gun”

A six gun and a saddle are two of my best friends
The other one’s a horse named Gypsy, she can run like the wind
For six months or maybe longer, this posse’s been on my trail
See, there’s a price on my head to shoot me dead or to take me back to jail

‘Cause I’m a wanted man from here to Wichita
And my picture’s on every poster, and they call me an outlaw
And the last ten men I’ve killed had me on the run
I’m warning you son ‘cause it ain’t no fun looking down the barrel
Of this loaded gun

They’ve been writing about me in the dime novels of the west
With their stories told of me chasing me with badges on their chest
The last thing I read, the count was up to twenty five
Oh but they don’t know I’ve taken over forty men’s lives

But that’s why I’m wanted from here to Wichita
And my picture’s on every poster, and they call me an outlaw
And the last ten men I’ve killed had me on the run
I’m warning you son ‘cause that ain’t no fun looking down the barrel
Of this loaded gun

I jimmy’d a bull on my first take after the war
And ever since then, trouble has come around
So I sleep with one eye open and my hand on my pistol
‘Cause them Pinkerton boys just may gun me down

‘Cause I’m a wanted man from here to Wichita
And my picture’s on every poster, and they call me an outlaw
And the last ten men I’ve killed had me on the run
I’m telling you son ‘cause that ain’t no fun looking down the barrel
Of that loaded gun

Written by Michael Sessoms • Copyright © Skeptic Ear Music

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from Tattered Map, released October 15, 2013

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