Johnny Cash Hardin Wouldn`t Run Lyrics

Hardin Wouldn`t Run Lyrics

I know a man whose plow handle hand

Is quicker than a light

Wes Hardin is his name

They say he travels in the night

For he might have to kill

Or walk around a fight



And if you ever saw Wes Hardin draw

You know he can skin his gun

He won't say how many tried and died

Up against the top hand

Up against the wrong man

'Cause Hardin wouldn't run



He rode in like a Texas wind

Took the East bound train

Goin', goin' with Jane Bowen

Till the lawmen caught up

So long Janie chin up

I'll be back again



Off he went to Huntsville prison

"So long Janie", he cried

Fifteen years she waited

Till her heart broke and she died

And she left that bad land

To wait up in the sky



Free at last the payin' past

For all the wrong he did

First free air they let him breathe

Since he was a kid

So let him come and let him go

And let him deal, and bid



Near the border in El Paso

Lawyer reads the sign

You won't find him there for business

Every day at nine

For business is real bad one client's

All he's had in quite a long long time



Then Sheriff Selman's boy

Broke in to Wes's woman's place

Up she jumped and pistol

Whipped  him kicked him in the face

And John Selman demands

Revenge for this disgrace



You could see every night

By candlelight in Hardin's favorite bar

She'd be hanging on his arm

And very late they'd leave there

Headed for the goose hair

Glad it wasn't far



Right through the swinging doors

John Selman came with a blazin' gun

Wes Hardin chug a luggin' red eye

Got him in the back of the head

John Wesley Hardin fell dead

Hardin wouldn't run