The Kid-Ben Nichols

[00:15.32]Your mother died night you were born [00:19.03]Her name you never knew [00:22.87]Look away look away [00:26.46]Nothing to lose [00:31.01]Left East Tennessee at fourteen [00:34.83]Wandered to the West [00:38.21]Look away look away [00:41.73]Born into death [00:47.06]You fought the sailors in New Orleans [00:54.71]You worked the flatboats and walked the streets [01:02.26]Hit Nacogdoches in forty nine [01:09.91]And there you saw the devil for the very first time [01:17.46]Kid don't you know me [01:21.55]We are the last of the true [01:24.45]Drink up drink up [01:29.58]Drink up drink up [01:33.53]Cause tonight your soul's required of you [01:40.46]Signed on with a stone mad captain [01:44.54]Rode on Mexico [01:47.92]Look away Look away [01:51.64]War behold [01:55.88]Jailed with killers one and all [01:59.26]But we were killers free [02:03.09]Look away look away [02:06.89]Look to me [02:12.06]You saw the lancers 'mid heathen hordes [02:19.68]Bloodstained veils and costumes of war [02:27.10]Hell ain't half-full boy hear me [02:34.92]War is the game and the god we seek [02:42.28]Kid don't you know me [02:46.47]We are the last of the true [02:49.23]Drink up drink up [02:54.09]Drink up drink up [02:58.47]Cause tonight your soul's required of you [03:02.53] [03:29.52]We set out as men of reason [03:33.62]Armed with Navy Colts [03:36.97]Look away look away [03:40.58]Work paid in gold [03:44.86]But you stood witness to yourself [03:48.62]Our trial you did betray [03:52.37]Look away Look away [03:55.94]To judgment day [04:01.12]We killed in the desert we killed in the streets [04:08.74]We chose what shall and shall not be [04:16.63]We stood with pistols fought back to back [04:24.10]Now you've stood you're ground but what ground is that [04:31.65]Kid don't you know me [04:35.84]We are the last of the true [04:38.80]Drink up drink up [04:43.05]Drink up drink up [04:47.74]Cause tonight your soul's required of you [04:55.40]Kid don't you know me [04:59.45]We are the last of the true [05:02.29]Drink up drink up [05:07.15]Drink up drink up [05:11.22]Cause tonight your soul's required of you [05:15.79]