The Lawman

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