Conversation with a Gun-Tex Ritter

[ti:Conversation With A Gun] [ar:Tex Ritter] [al:American Roots Music] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Conversation with a Gun - Tex Ritter [00:05.40]Speak up you rusty forty-five [00:08.31] [00:09.35]How many can you name [00:11.05]That you faced and left alive [00:13.05] [00:14.52]How many hit the dust [00:16.56] [00:17.10]Left there lying in the street [00:19.11] [00:20.25]Did you get them in the back [00:21.57] [00:22.80]Or did you face them on their feet [00:25.10] [00:26.32]Oh yes You had your day [00:28.64]You were known for slinging lead [00:30.63] [00:31.82]Those behind you laughed and shouted [00:34.79] [00:35.96]Those in front of you fell dead [00:39.69] [01:00.09]There was Utah Pete and One Eyed Jack [01:02.92] [01:03.75]Just to mention just a few [01:05.88] [01:07.10]So won't you tell me how you feel [01:09.67]Now that your battles have been won [01:12.31] [01:13.55]Speak up we've no secrets [01:16.50] [01:17.63]For I'm the Man and you're the Gun [01:21.50] [01:23.20]Yes you're the gun that tamed the West [01:26.40] [01:27.14]And I'm the last one that you faced [01:29.33] [01:30.55]The one who owned you then [01:32.69] [01:33.95]He was beaten and disgraced [01:36.32] [01:37.99]They cheered me [01:38.92]And they wined me the day I shot him down [01:41.48]I was their hero [01:42.73] [01:44.12]Heard my praises echo through that Western town [01:47.32] [01:49.19]But then although I beat you [01:51.52] [01:52.47]You became my own downfall [01:55.61] [01:56.55]For I placed you in my holster [01:58.65] [02:03.57]The very next fight he got me [02:07.10] [02:07.73]Left me wounded and no longer young [02:10.68] [02:11.62]But it wasn't him that beat me oh [02:13.74]It was you yes you [02:17.14] [02:18.70]The gun [02:19.51] [02:20.87]So go on [02:22.14] [02:23.13]Hang there on the wall [02:24.80]Ignore me [02:25.75]See if I care [02:26.74] [02:27.79]I'll just wheel myself over to the window here [02:31.84] [02:34.88]Get me a breath of fresh air [02:37.03] [02:38.14]So when some friends comes calling [02:41.12] [02:49.53]Was it me or was it you [02:53.88] [02:55.26]The Gun