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Lyrics for WILDWOOD BOYS by Ry Cooder:
| | | Artist: | Ry Cooder |
| | Album: | Unknown | | Track: | WILDWOOD BOYS | | | | Date Added: | 18/10/2007 | | Views: | 62 | | | | Lyrics: | (J. Dickinson-R. Cooder)
This here was our situation
We was just young wildwood boys
New as the birth of the nation
The kind that the Army employs
High riding Rebs from
Missouri
Fought for the grey ???
Caught up by the battle and the fury
Back when just
living was hell
After the battle was over
And after the Union had won
It was
quitting that made us the loser
So we kept doing just what we'd done
Riding as comrads
together
We looted the trains and the banks
Removing that carpetbag money
And
sticking it hard to the Yanks
Death always follows behind you
When you ride down that
old outlaw trail
Someday a bullet will find you
Or you'll rot like a corpse in some jail
Turning your back to the danger
Is a wager no man can afford
'Cause gold turns a
friend to a stranger
Like old Judas turned on our Lord
Men are revered and remembered
While they lay in that coffin and rot
Some live in the legends of history
Most are
forever forgot
The victory it goes to the strongest
And only the strong will survive
Survival is living the longest
But nobody gets out alive
The questions don't
never get answered
And the rights, they're remembered all wrong
The facts, they can get
plenty confusing
So someday if you happen to be singing this song
Remember it's just for
the record
You can't change the handwork of fate
And tell 'em I lived for the moment
And I died when I tried to go straight | | | |  Reddit | X / Twitter | Facebook | Copy link |
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