Tom Ames' Prayer-Robert Earl Keen

[ti:Tom Ames' Prayer] [ar:Robert Earl Keen] [al:Gringo Honeymoon] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Tom Ames' Prayer (汤姆·艾姆斯的祈祷) - Robert Earl Keen (罗伯特·伯爵基恩) [00:05.44]Everyone in Nacodoches [00:06.74]Knew Tom Ames would come to a bad end [00:10.46]'Cause the sheriff caught him [00:11.66]Stealin' chickens and such by the time he was ten [00:15.74]One day his daddy took a ten dollar bill [00:18.27]And tucked it in his hand [00:20.50]He said I know you're headed for trouble son [00:23.51]Your Momma wouldn't understand [00:25.09] [00:25.97]So he took his dad's money and his brother's old bay [00:28.64]He left without a word of thanks [00:30.75]He fell in with this crowd in some border town [00:33.53]And he took to robbing banks [00:35.72] [00:46.23]Outside the law his luck run out fast [00:48.86]A few years came and went [00:50.97]Till he's trapped in an alley in Abilene [00:53.90]With all but four shells spent [00:56.15]And he realized prayin' was the only thing [00:58.94]That he hadn't ever tried [01:01.07]Well he wasn't sure he quite knew how [01:03.89]But he looked up to the sky [01:06.13]Said you don't owe me nothin' and as far as I know Lord [01:09.25]I don't owe nothin' to you [01:11.25]I ain't askin' for a miracle Lord [01:13.93]Just a little bit of luck will do [01:16.39]You know I ain't never prayed before [01:18.94]'Cause it always seemed to me [01:21.19]That prayin' is the same as beggin' Lord [01:23.45]I don't take no charity [01:25.69] [01:36.28]But right now Lord with my back to the wall [01:38.92]I can't help but recall [01:40.97]How they nearly hung me for stealin' a horse [01:43.64]In Fort Smith Arkansas [01:46.02]Judge Parker said guilty and the gavel came down [01:48.69]Just like a cannon shot [01:50.99]I went away quietly [01:53.25]I began to file a plot [01:56.03]They sent the preacher down to my cell [01:58.45]He said the Lord's your only hope [02:00.82]He's the only friend you're gonna have son [02:03.33]When you hit the end of Parker's rope [02:05.32] [02:06.01]And I guess he could have kept preachin' till Christmas [02:08.53]But he turned his back on me [02:10.70]I put a homemade blade to that golden throat [02:13.38]Asked the deputy for the key [02:15.08] [02:26.30]It ain't the first trouble I've seen before [02:28.82]As you already know [02:30.73]I've had some help from you Lord and the Devil himself's [02:33.71]Been strictly touch and go [02:35.43] [02:36.09]Yeah but who in the hell am I talkin' to [02:38.76]There ain't no one here but me [02:41.34] [02:42.63]So he cocked both his pistols and he spit in the dirt [02:47.19] [02:47.84]And he walked out into that street