Texas

Followin' the Brazos River down to Mexico

I am a wanted outlaw and I've got nowhere left to go

I'm runnin' from a bankjob that I did in Ohio

Where lady luck and aces full put me back out in the cold

I spent the night in a mission filled with hungry ghosts and stone

Not far from the border in a town called San Antone

I woke up to a ruckus, it chilled me to the bone

My pistols drew and bullets flew, but I was all alone

Crossing the Nueces River westbound with a herd

I signed up with a drover and I took him at his word

Evening came on quiet, my guilty heart was stirred

To see the sun go sinking past the point of no return

Sold the cattle in Del Rio, collected all my pay

And I stared across the Rio Grande and I wished that I could stay

This side of the border where they lived the Texas way

But I'll travel on a branded man in sorrow all my days