Running Gun-Marty Robbins

[ti:Running Gun] [ar:Marty Robbins] [al:Open Stage] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Running Gun - Marty Robbins [00:00.63]Written by：Jim Glaser/Tompall Glaser [00:01.29] [00:03.96]I rode out of Kansas City going south to Mexico [00:08.16]I was running dodging dangerleft the girl that I loved so [00:12.38] [00:13.03]Far behind lay Kansas City and the past that I had earned [00:17.61]Twenty notches on my six gun marked the lessons I had learned [00:21.68] [00:22.71]Many times I sold my fast gun for a place to lay my head [00:27.13]Till the nights began to haunt me by the men that I lay dead [00:31.68] [00:32.31]Couldn't stand it any longer with this life that I'd begun [00:36.51]So I said good bye to Jeannie and became a running gun [00:41.66] [00:42.96]I rode into Amarillo as the sun sank in the west [00:47.16]My thoughts in Kansas City and the girl that I love best [00:51.21] [00:52.03]As I smiled and kissed her gently and then turned around to go [00:56.37]Said I'd send for her to meet me when I reached old Mexico [01:00.68] [01:01.59]I had barely left the saddle and my foot just touched the ground [01:05.91]When a cold voice from the shadows told me not to turn around [01:11.10]Said he new about my fast gunnew the price paid by the law [01:15.40]Challenged by a bounty hunterso I turned around to draw [01:20.84]I knew someday I'd meet him for his hand like lightning flashed [01:25.06]My own gun stayed in leather as his bullet tore it's path [01:29.25] [01:30.07]As my strength was slowly fading I could see him walk away [01:34.31]And I knew that where I lie tonight he to must lie some day [01:38.61] [01:39.41]Now the cloud is slowly fading but my eyes are growing dim [01:43.86]And my thoughts return to Jeannie [01:45.85]And the home that we had planned [01:49.05]Oh please tell her won't you mister [01:51.11]That she's still the only one [01:53.22]But a woman's love is waisted when she loves a running gun [01:58.20] [01:59.65]Running gun running gun