(David Crosby)
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[Intro. (Electric Guitars)]
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Me and my good partners
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We were riding back to our camp
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We were feeling very fine
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The air was clear and slightly damp
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We were riding back to have ourselves a party
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To celebrate the robbing of the train
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We were talking kind of low and lazy
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'bout not having to go out soon again
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You know we hadn't been back at home two hours
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We heard a hawk cry out in the night
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And you know that's a signal from young Billy who's our sentry
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Saying something here ain't exactly right, oh
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We quick grabbed some of our hardware
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Stumbled out of our home
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Two minutes flat we had found her
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An Indian girl all alone
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And Eli said let's take her back to the cabin
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I said you don't know she might be the law, yeah
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He said smiling kind of nasty it ain't too damn likely
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She'll beat me to the draw, oh no
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As we were walking back through the darkness
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I heard the Duke he's our dynamiter say
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He said what's your name sweet little Indian girl
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She said Raven and she looked away
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Right then I didn't trust her no no I said so, oh no
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Now Eli he's our fastest gunner
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He's kind of mean and young from the South
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He said Fat Albert you're getting kind of old and weird now
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You'd better get your 12 gauge shotgun right out and I did oh you know I did
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Now Eli and the Duke they got down to it
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They each wanted that Indian girl for their own
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When they finally got around to asking her
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You know she said she'd come to take young Billy home, oh no, no, no
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Eli said he'd kill young Billy
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He'd kill the Duke and probably me too, yeah
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That Indian girl said go ahead now do it
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I said stop and she bit my thumb nearly clean through, oh
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And when they finally started to break down the door, yeah
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I smeared my face up with blood from my thumb, yeah
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I laid down on the floor and played real good possum
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You know I'm crazy but I ain't real dumb, oh no
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[Instrumental (Electric Guitars)]
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Now I'm dying here in Albuquerque
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I must be the sorriest sight you ever saw
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You know the reason I'm the only one here to tell it
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You know that Indian girl she wasn't an Indian she was the law
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[Instrumental Ending (Electric Guitars)]
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Cowboy Movie
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David Crosby |