My .45s are rusted now
Montana Slim is making mournful sounds
A cowboy’s pony is lying on the ground
Gunned down, gunned down, gunned down
The rider crawls to the canyon wall
Trying to escape the storm that fell
And ricochets through this dry gulch hell
The sound, the sound, the sound
He thinks back to a younger day
Before her love drifted away
Before he learned how to kneel and pray
Out loud, out loud, out loud
They’d married East in a summer rain
They danced across the wild Missouri Breaks
Now she’s gone to Santa Fe
Southbound, southbound, southbound
The dying horse was all she left
Strawberry roan and a note that read
“Nothing’s proved by love or death
I’ve found, I’ve found, I’ve found”
He leans against the sandstone cliff
Breath cuts like a knife in his pounding chest
He loads his guns with all that’s left
One round, one round, one round
The cowboy way is work and hurt
His life is just a trail of dirt
And the past hangs on forever like a curse
So he’ll face a stranger’s gun
That blows him all to Kingdom Come
Because the silence of a lover’s heart kills worse
There is a hole in Wilf Carter’s soul
I feel his wound - I’ve got my own
All the joy I’ve ever known
Left town, left town, left town
My .45s are rusted now
Montana Slim is making mournful sounds
Singing again how love was found
Gunned down, gunned down, gunned down
Gunned down, gunned down, gunned down
Gunned down, gunned down, gunned down
credits
from The Lost Anglers,
released April 24, 2015
words music owen burgess | lead vocal john ford | lead rhythm guitars ross edmunds | acoustic guitar owen burgess | bass stephen starr | drums chris terry | harmony vocal ross edmunds | backing vocal chris terry
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