Sam Bass-Alan Lomax

[ti:Sam Bass] [ar:Alan Lomax] [al:Cowboy Songs Of The Old West] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Sam Bass - Alan Lomax [00:05.45]Sam Bass was born in Indiana [00:09.90]It was his native home [00:13.22]And at the age of seventeen [00:16.08]Young Sam began to Roam [00:19.37]Sam first came out to texas [00:22.26] [00:22.80]A cowboy for to be [00:25.86]A kinder hearted fellow [00:28.65]You saldom ever see [00:32.31] [00:34.63]Sam used to deal in race stock [00:37.76]One called the Denton Mare [00:40.64]He matched her in scrub races [00:43.62]And take her to the fair [00:46.53]Sam used to coin the money purse [00:49.48]And spend it just as free [00:52.46]He always drank good whiskey [00:55.42]Wherever he might be [00:58.98] [00:59.89]Sam left the Collins ranch [01:02.59]In the Merry month of May [01:05.88]With a herd of texas cattle [01:08.89]The black hills for to see [01:11.59]Sold out in Custer city [01:14.53]And then got on a spree [01:17.44]A harder set of cowboys [01:20.29]You saldom ever see [01:23.54] [01:24.69]On their way back to texas [01:27.58]They robbed the N P train [01:30.17] [01:30.72]Then split up in couples [01:33.07]And started out again [01:36.00]Joe Collings and his partner [01:38.76]Were over taken soon [01:41.55]With all their hard and money boys [01:44.37]They had to meet their doom [01:47.83] [01:48.64]Sam made it back to texas [01:51.46]All right side up with care [01:54.29]Rode into the town of Denton [01:57.04]With all his friends to share [01:59.85]Sam's life was short in texas [02:02.62]Three robberies did he do [02:05.40]He robbed all the passenger mail [02:07.60]And express cars too [02:11.36] [02:13.63]Sam met his fate at round rock [02:16.49]July the twenty first [02:19.17]They pierced poor Sam with rifle balls [02:22.04]And emptied out his purse [02:24.67]Poor Sam is a corpse [02:27.11]And six foot under clay [02:30.16]And Jackson's in the bushes boy [02:33.00]Is trying to get away [02:36.39] [02:37.35]Jim had borrowed Sam's good gold [02:39.74]And didn't want to pay [02:42.56]The only shot he saw [02:44.99]Was to give poor Sam away [02:47.79]He sold out Sam and Barnes [02:50.48]And left their friends to mourn [02:53.62]Oh what a scorchin' Jim will get [02:56.00]When Gabriel blows his horn [02:58.78] [03:00.39]Yes he sold out Sam and Barnes [03:02.85]And left their friends to mourn [03:05.29] [03:05.79]Oh what a scorchin' Jim will get [03:08.15]When Gabriel blows his horn [03:10.91]Perhaps he's got to heaven [03:13.40]There's none of us can say [03:16.39] [03:17.66]But if I'm right in my surmise [03:20.15]He's gone the other way