Tall Handsome Stranger

A tall handsome stranger rode into town With fire in his eyes burning red as sundown His boots were all dusty, his coat open wide Six ways of dying hung low on his side He went in the town hall asking for me They told him that I was still town deputy I sent him to prison to pay for his crime He killed a guard on the Santa Fe line He spread word around town that my time had come My notch was already carved on his gun He's laughin' and braggin' and having his fun It's all a show for he knows I won't run That night in silence the town was asleep I sat by my window and looked down the street I wished in my heart that he'd just ride away I hated to face him at sunup that day I met him at sunup, the crowd gathered 'round Awaitin' and watchin' for one to go down He grabbed for his six-gun, tryin' his best He cursed as my bullet went deep in his chest He stood there a moment and looked all around Slowly and lifeless, he fell to the ground The stranger's my brother, born an outlaw He must have forgotten I taught him to draw The whole town was waitin' and I was alone The blood that I spilled was just like my own When she hears this story, how mother will cry Brother 'gainst brother and one had to die To die, to die