Blackie Dalton (unreleased) Lyrics

Blackie Dalton (unreleased) lyrics

Blackie Dalton was a gun fighter 

They say that he was the fastest gun
alive 

Before you could draw your gun from the holster 

You would
surely die 



Blackie Dalton was a gun fighter 

He killed
three men in abilone and four in Wichita 

He wounded one in Kansas City


Let him live out of pity 

He was tired of killing them all 



Then one night in a brawl 

His brother John got killed in
Wichita 

Defending his brother's name 

The Blackie Dalton fame had
brought his brother shame 



He got word in Tucson about his brother
John 

They heard him say as he left that day 

"I've got to hunt him
down 

Then I'll throw my gun away" 



Lonely night on the
trail 

He'd listen to the coyotes wail 

And sympathise with the cry


For one more man must die 



Blackie Dalton was a gun fighter


The fastest gun alive is what they say 

He caught that man shot
him down 

Turned and walked away 

Yes, he threw his gun away 



Blackie Dalton was a gun fighter 

But he turned his back on the
life that he had led 

A man remembered from Kansas city 

Didn't
have any pity 

He shot Blackie dead 

Yes he shot Blackie dead 



Lonely nights on the trail 

The cowboys tell a different tale


Blackie didn't really die 

No, Blackie didn't really die 



Blackie Dalton was a gun fighter 

The fastest gun alive is what
they said 

He changed his name and in his grave 

The Kansas man
instead 

With this marker at his head 

"Blackie Dalton was a gun
fighter"