Running Gun-Marty Robbins

[ti:Running Gun] [ar:Marty Robbins] [al:Gunfighter Ballads and Trail Songs Vols. 1 & 2 (Bonus Track Version)] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Running Gun - Marty Robbins [00:04.08]I rode out of Kansas City going south to Mexico [00:08.30]I was running dodging danger left the girl that I loved so [00:12.26] [00:13.30]Far behind lay Kansas City and the past that I had earned [00:17.83]Twenty notches on my six gun marked the lessons I had learned [00:21.44] [00:23.05]Many times I sold my fast gun for a place to lay my head [00:27.24]Till the nights began to haunt me by the men that I left dead [00:31.07] [00:32.54]Couldn't stand it any longer with the life that I'd begun [00:36.65]So I said good-bye to Jeannie and became a running gun [00:40.42] [00:43.03]I rode into Amarillo as the sun sank in the west [00:47.44]My thoughts in Kansas City and the girl that I love best [00:51.03] [00:52.33]As I smiled and kissed her gently and then turned away to go [00:56.09] [00:56.61]Said I'd send for her to meet me when I reached old Mexico [01:00.35] [01:01.64]I had barely left the saddle and my foot just touched the ground [01:06.10]When a cold voice from the shadows told me not to turn around [01:09.79] [01:11.15]Said he knew about my fast gun knew the price paid by the law [01:15.54]Challenged by a bounty hunter so I turned around to draw [01:19.26] [01:21.01]I knew someday I'd meet him for his hand like lightning flashed [01:24.32] [01:25.07]My own gun stood in leather as his bullet tore its path [01:28.74] [01:30.09]As my strength was slowly fading I could see him walk away [01:33.97] [01:34.52]And I knew that where I lie today he too must lie some day [01:38.32] [01:39.58]Now a crowd is slowly gathering but my eyes are growing dim [01:43.92]And my thoughts return to Jeannie and the home that we had planned [01:48.32] [01:49.02]Oh please tell her won't you mister that she's still the only one [01:53.31]But a woman's love is wasted when she loves a running gun [01:58.32] [01:59.65]Running gun [02:02.02] [02:04.00]Running gun