Lyrics

Bad Cards & Slow Horses
(The marker read: ride fast shoot straight die with your boots on)
Verse: Great granddaddy was a bad seed
A hell bent cowboy stuck on crazy
He was in the wrong bar in the wrong game
And got caught makin’ a bottom deal
And when his gun dealt the final hand
He stole a mustang ridin’ hard for the badlands
Chorus: Yeah he was an outlaw in the wild wild west
Yeah hunted hounded chokin’ on dust
He was runnin’ outta time and choices
But he swore if they hung him from a cottonwood limb
He’d laugh and blame it all on bad cards and slow horses
Verse: Grandma said it didn’t have to be
He had a good name a good “famly”
Said he was a charmer a lady killer
But no womans love could melt that steel
He was born with a fatal flaw
A lost soul cursed with a quick temper and a fast draw
Chorus: (Repeat)
Instrumental:
Chorus: (Repeat first 3 lines) And when they hung him from a cottonwood limb
He laughed and blamed it all on bad cards and slow horses
Yeah bad bad cards and slow horses
(Yeah his marker shoulda read: Stay away from bad cards and slow horses)
© 2017 Words & Music R. Alsup/ R. Alsup ASCAP
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