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Lyrics for Bill Venero by Marty Robbins:
| | | Artist: | Marty Robbins |
| | Album: | Unknown | | Track: | Bill Venero | | | | Date Added: | 18/10/2007 | | Views: | 73 | | | | Lyrics: | In an Arizona town one day
Bill Venero heard them say
That a band of Apache
Indians
Were on the trail that way
Heard them tell of murder done
Three men killed at
Rocky Run
"They're in danger at the cow ranch"
Said Venero under his
breath!
Nearly forty miles away
Was a little place that lay
In a deep and shady
valley
In the mighty wilderness
Half a score of homes were there
And in one a maiden
fair
Held the heart of Bill Venero
Bill Venero's Little Bess.
So no wonder he grew
pale
When he heard the cowboy's tale
Of the men that he'd seen murdered
There at
Rocky Run
Sure as there's a God above
I will save the girl I love
By that love I hold
for Bessie
I will see that somethin's done!
Not one minute he delayed
When this
brave resolve was made
"But, man," his comrades told him
When they hears his daring
plan
"You are riding straight to death!"
But he answered, "Save your breath,
I may
never reach the cow ranch
But I'll do the best I can."
As he crossed the alkali
All
his thoughts flew on ahead
To the little band at Cow Ranch
Thinking not a danger
near
With his quirt's unceasing whirl
And the jingle of his spurs
Little Chapo bore
the cowboy
O´er the far away frontier.
Sharp and dear a rifle shot
Woke the
echoes of the spot
"I am wounded," cried Venero
As he swayed from side to
side.
"While there's life there's always hope
Slowly onward I will lope
If we fail to
reach the Cow Ranch
Bessie Lee will know I tried."
Then at dusk a horse of
brown
Wet with sweat came panting down
The little lane at Cow Ranch
Stopped in front
of Bessie's door.
But the cowboy was asleep
And his slumber was so deep
Little Bess
could never wake him
Though she tried forever more.
You have heard this story
told
By the young and by the old
How the Indians killed Venero
On his way to Rocky
Run.
Many years have passed away
And the maiden's hair is gray
But still she places
roses
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