Rhymes of the Renegades-Michael Martin Murphey

[ti:Rhymes Of Renegades (Album Ver] [ar:Michael Martin Murphey] [al:Cowboy Songs III] [by:] [offset:0] [00:11.41]If you listen close when the hot wind blows [00:14.66]Down the dust filled streets of old tombstone [00:18.60]You might hear an old rhyme ringin' [00:22.29]Of the legends who walked in their long black coats [00:25.85]And their high top boots and their 45 colts [00:29.54]Right in to this song i'm singing [00:32.85] [00:33.48]That the ballad mongers made [00:36.23] [00:37.10]Into the rhymes of the renegades [00:42.10] [00:48.66]Way up in dakota by the deadwood moon [00:52.04]Wild bill's ghost haunts number 10 saloon [00:55.54]Where a coward came to get him [00:59.29]Bill held a dead man's hand of aces and eights [01:02.98]With his back to the door he tempted fate [01:06.60]Old bill never knew what hit him [01:10.79]Gamblin' his life away [01:14.16]To the ryhmes of the renegades [01:18.88] [01:21.75]And in all of the towns too tough to die [01:25.31]Their dancin' up on boot hill tonight [01:29.69]Laughin' at the movies hollywood made [01:33.31]Dancing to the rhymes of the renegades [01:36.75]And billy the kid is laughing right out loud [01:40.06]At how they turned him into a hero somehow [01:44.19]Who'll cast a third stone at his well known grave [01:47.81]While chanting these rhymes of the renegades [01:51.87] [02:02.75]Way out in california by a long dark bend [02:06.25]And a mask and duster blowing in the wind [02:09.81]Black bart still stands there waitin' [02:13.69]And out in el paso the thunder cloud rolls [02:17.25]Like john wessley hardin's guns long ago [02:21.07]And the west still loves to hate him [02:24.88]For his legend will not fade [02:28.50]From the rhymes of the renegades [02:32.94] [02:38.19]And all of the robbers who rode through hell [02:41.81]And danced on the rope when the gallows fell [02:45.51]Their demons are still with us [02:49.06]And the vigilantes do more evil than good [02:52.82]When they masquarade around like robin hood [02:56.38]And they ride at night to get us [03:00.07]From the owl whoot trails the shades [03:04.32] [03:05.57]Come the rhymes of the renegades [03:11.07] [03:13.50]And could it be true that some become outlaws [03:16.88]Holdin' on to the last to a long lost cause [03:20.69]Diggin' their grave with a silver spade [03:24.13]Singing hymes and rhymes to the renegades [03:27.94]Some call it a mystery when waco burns [03:31.69]From history they refuse to learn [03:35.63]They turn their backs 'till the movie deal's made [03:39.31]Deaf to the rhymes of the renegades [03:42.75]They'll burn down up to heaven and stay [03:46.50]Cause the raid out laws on the churches and banks [03:50.23]They enforce the laws that where tailor made [03:53.98]They won't hear the rhymes of the renegades [03:57.73]They ignore the dark side of humanity [04:01.36]They're living the illusion that were all free [04:04.98]They'll never know how many could be saved [04:08.92]From the lessons and the rhymes of the renegades