The Fastest Gun Around-Marty Robbins

[ti:The Fastest Gun Around] [ar:Marty Robbins] [al:Under the Western Skies, Vol. 5] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]The Fastest Gun Around - Marty Robbins [00:08.72]In the days of William Bonney [00:10.52]Better known as Bill the kid [00:13.07]A young cowboy named Joey Steel [00:14.87]Was about to make his bid [00:17.13]Well he heard one day that [00:18.52]Bill the kid had just rode into town [00:21.36]And if he could take him [00:22.71]He would be the fastest gun around [00:25.58]He was just a kid of seventeen [00:27.50]But he had a lighting hand [00:29.72]And he said it's time [00:30.70]I showed the world that I've become a man [00:32.82] [00:34.10]Everyone thinks Billy is the fastest gun around [00:38.10]But they will know [00:39.09]I'm faster when they see me shoot him down [00:42.29]They finally came together down [00:44.39]On main street just at five [00:46.45]The people were all gathered [00:48.14]Wondering who'd be left alive [00:50.79]Billy knew that Joey wanted notches on his gun [00:54.76]And he wished that he could give him [00:56.82]Those he'd carved upon his own [00:59.56] [01:02.42]Joey's hand went to his side [01:04.24]He was sure that he had won [01:06.28]But before he even fired [01:08.06]He saw the smoke of Billy's gun [01:10.50]And he felt the bullet hit him hard [01:12.61]And before his eyes he saw [01:14.75]His wasted life pass quickly [01:16.61]Ending with this fatal draw [01:19.08]Billy breathed more easily [01:20.54] [01:21.06]And he put away his gun [01:23.12]And he tried to ease his conscience [01:24.96]For the wrong that he had done [01:27.23]Then he saddled up his horse [01:28.73]And headed westward out of town [01:31.35]And he wondered just how long [01:32.98]He'd be the fastest gun around