Tall Handsome Stranger-Marty Robbins

[ti:Tall Handsome Stranger] [ar:Marty Robbins] [al:Return of the Gunfighter] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Tall Handsome Stranger - Marty Robbins [00:04.38]A tall handsome stranger rode into town [00:07.32]With fire in his eyes burning red as sundown [00:10.81]His boots were all dusty his coat open wide [00:14.22]Six ways of dying hung low on his side [00:18.95] [00:20.64]He went in the town hall asking for me [00:23.78]They told him that I was still town deputy [00:27.33]I sent him to prison to pay for his crime [00:30.80]He killed a guard on the Sante Fe line [00:35.78] [00:36.91]He spread word around town that my time had come [00:40.30]My notch was already carved on his gun [00:43.79]He's laughing and braggin and having his fun [00:46.06] [00:47.30]It's all a show for he knows I won't run [00:51.61] [00:53.84]That night in silence the town was asleep [00:56.59]I sat by my window and looked down the street [01:00.41]I wished in my heart that he would just ride away [01:03.84]I hated to face him next sunup that day [01:09.05] [01:10.24]I met him at sunup the crowd gathered round [01:13.30]Waitin and watching for one to go down [01:16.85]He grabbed for his six gun tryin his best [01:20.16]He cursed as my bullet went deep in his chest [01:24.51] [01:26.51]He stood there a moment and looked all around [01:29.76]Slowly and lifeless he fell to the ground [01:33.39]The stranger's my brother born an outlaw [01:36.71]He must have forgotton I taught him to draw [01:41.58] [01:43.01]The whole town was waiting and I was alone [01:46.32]The blood that I spilled was just like my own [01:49.76]When she hears this story how Mother will cry [01:53.37]Brother 'gainst brother and one had to die