The Lawman
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  • Reads 177
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  • Parts 6
  • Time 1h 5m
Complete, First published Jun 21, 2019
A short story based off of Billy Walker's song The Lawman

		They sent me out from Santa Fe to try and find his trail
		
		They think that I'm the only one who can bring him back to jail
		
		This star says I'm a lawman this gun has seen me through
		
		And though my heart is heavy I've got a job to do
		
		You see he's such a proud man who never learned to crawl
		
		But a good man turns gun slinger he's the meanest man of all
		
		He killed the US Marshall and for that he's gonna pay
		
		And I'm the lonely lawman who's on his trail today

		There was a time he fought for true and on the side of right

		Until the only girl he loved was killed one faithful night

		I know his heart was shattered as he turned the barren sod

		And laid away her body come ending into God

		Then he vowed a revenge to those who took her life

		And every notch upon his gun a tear shed for his wife

		But revenge is like wild fire sweepin' through the wood

		It turns reason into ashes and it burns out on the good
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