Hangman Swing

There ain't no judge, no jury down around El Paso Hangman posse blazing my trail before I get to Mexico Thirteen guns were tracking, 'side the Rio Grande they rode About a debt I owe, yeah! Through the heat of the desert sun underneath a blackbird's wing I keeping one step ahead of the gun Or I'll be stretching my neck in a noose Doing the hangman swing Sheriff wants to lynch me for what I did to his wife Well how was I to know it was her, but it damn sure was nice Now they want to see me dancing on the end of a rope About a debt I owe, yeah! Through the heat of the desert sun underneath a blackbird's wing I keeping one step ahead of the gun Or I'll be stretching my neck in a noose Doing the hangman swing Hangman swing (hangman swing) It's hangman swing, swing, swing Hangman swing (hangman swing) C'mon, swing boys, yeah! Found me about a half day's ride from the border of Mexico Put a bullet 'twixt my blades and my neck in a rope Through the heat of the desert sun underneath a blackbird's wing I keeping one step ahead of the gun Or I'll be stretching my neck in a noose Doing the hangman swing Yeah, the hangman swing (hangman swing) It's hangman swing, swing, swing Hangman swing (hangman swing) Yeah, the hangman swing (hangman swing) It's the hangman swing (hangman swing) Yeah, the hangman swing (hangman swing) Well the hangman swing (hangman swing)