Johnson County War-Chris Ledoux

[ti:Johnson County War] [ar:Chris Ledoux] [al:Powder River] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Johnson County War - Chris Ledoux (克里斯-勒多克斯) [01:21.00]Headed for Wyoming in 1882 a woman a team and a wagon [01:26.91]Gonna make our dreams come true [01:28.28] [01:29.55]Settled in the foothills of the big horn mountain slope [01:32.81] [01:34.05]Life is sweet we lived on the meat of the deer and the antelope [01:37.20] [01:39.19]We cut house logs on the moutain with the team we hauled 'em down [01:42.61] [01:43.51]Peeled 'em and we stacked 'em up for a house and bought some ground [01:47.49] [01:48.43]Traded for some cattle and turned 'em out on the range [01:51.64] [01:52.92]The skies were blue and we never knew how things were gonna change [01:56.14] [01:58.66]Ole powder river you're muddy and wide how many men have died upon [02:04.52]Your shores [02:05.57] [02:07.00]When you brand a man a rustler he's gotta take a side [02:10.86] [02:12.68]There's no middle ground in this Johnson country war [02:15.35] [02:19.36]Well the neighbors stopped by yesterday while I was outside choppin' [02:22.49]Some wood [02:23.10] [02:23.82]And they filled me in on the local news ain't none of it sounded good [02:27.90]Said they'd been some cattle stealin' by some no count outlaw bands [02:31.67] [02:32.60]We'd all been branded rustler's by the big ranchers of this land [02:35.99] [02:37.95]Well it was us against the cattlemen and the years just made it worse [02:41.69] [02:42.54]First the drought then the tough winter Johnson county had been dealt [02:45.71]A curse [02:46.26] [02:47.21]Then their came the story about the two dry golgia tax [02:50.42] [02:51.66]Ranger Jones and John Tisdale both been shot in the back [02:55.09] [02:57.62]Oh powder river you're muddy and you're wide [03:00.85] [03:01.63]How many men have died upon your shores [03:04.72] [03:06.04]When you brand a man a rustler he's gotta take a side [03:09.81] [03:11.66]There's no middle ground in this Johnson county war [03:14.48] [03:18.91]Then last night at supper time riders stopped by chance [03:22.35] [03:22.91]They said cattleman and hired guns just burned the Kaycee Ranch [03:26.53] [03:27.33]Two men had died this mornin' shot down in the snow [03:30.88] [03:31.75]Now the vigilante army was marchin' for buffalo [03:35.11] [03:37.29]Well the county was in an uproar an every man saddled up to ride [03:40.90] [03:41.77]Caught the cattlemen at the TA Ranch and surrounded all four sides [03:45.25] [03:46.56]We hailed the house with bullets and swore we'd make 'em pay [03:49.62] [03:50.60]But the calvery came across the plains and once again saved the day [03:54.19] [03:58.58]Well they marched 'em off to Cheyenne and no one went to jail [04:02.29] [04:03.13]The cattlemen we're all turned loose and the hired guns hit the trail [04:06.59] [04:07.37]And I guess the only justice wasn't much to say the least [04:11.00] [04:11.84]Last winter me and mine ate mighty fine on the cattle baron's beef [04:15.71] [04:18.30]Oh powder river you're muddy and you're wide [04:21.56] [04:22.36]How many men have died upon your shores [04:25.37] [04:26.66]When you brand a man a rustler he's gotta take a side [04:30.49] [04:32.36]There's no middle ground in this Johnson county war [04:34.99] [04:36.83]There's no middle ground in this Johnson county war