Michael Martin Murphey – Rhymes Of The Renegades (Guitar)

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        If You Listen Close When The Hot Wind Blows

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        Down The Dust Filled Streets Of Old Tombstone

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        You Might Hear An Old Rhyme Ringin'

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        Of The Legends Who Walked In Their Long Black Coats

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        And Their High Top Boots And Their .45 Colts

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        Right In To This Song I'm Singing

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        That The Ballad Mongers Made

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        Into The Rhymes Of The Renegades

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        Way Up In Dakota By The Deadwood Moon

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        Wild Bill's Ghost Haunts Number 10 Saloon

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        Where A Coward Came To Get Him

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        Bill Held A Dead Man's Hand Of Aces And Eights

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        With His Back To The Door He Tempted Fate

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        Old Bill Never Knew What Hit Him

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        Gamblin' His Life Away

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        To The Ryhmes Of The Renegades

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        And In All Of The Towns Too Tough To Die

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        Their Dancin' Up On Boot Hill Tonight

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        Laughin' At The Movies Hollywood Made

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        Dancing To The Rhymes Of The Renegades

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        And Billy The Kid Is Laughing Right Out Loud

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        At How They Turned Him Into A Hero Somehow

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        Who'll Cast A Third Stone At His Well Known Grave

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        While Chanting These Rhymes Of The Renegades

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        Way Out In California By A Long Dark Bend

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        And A Mask And Duster Blowing In The Wind

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        Black Bart Still Stands There Waitin'

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        And Out In El Paso The Thunder Cloud Rolls

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        Like John Wessley Hardin's Guns Long Ago

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        And The West Still Loves To Hate Him

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        For His Legend Will Not Fade

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        From The Rhymes Of The Renegades

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        And All Of The Robbers Who Rode Through Hell

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        And Danced On The Rope When The Gallows Fell

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        Their Demons Are Still With Us

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        And The Vigilantes Do More Evil Than Good

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        When They Masquarade Around Like Robin Hood

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        And They Ride At Night To Get Us

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        From The Owl Whoot Trails The Shades

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        Come The Rhymes Of The Renegades

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        And Could It Be True That Some Become Outlaws

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        Holdin' On To The Last To A Long Lost Cause

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        Diggin' Their Grave With A Silver Spade

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        Singing Hymes And Rhymes To The Renegades

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        Some Call It A Mystery When Waco Burns

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        From History They Refuse To Learn

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        They Turn Their Backs 'Till The Movie Deal's Made

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        Deaf To The Rhymes Of The Renegades

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        They'll Burn Down Up To Heaven And Stay (not sure of lyrics here)

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        Cause The Raid Out Laws On the Churches And Banks (not sure of lryics here)

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        They Enforce The Laws That Where Tailor Made

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        They Won't Hear The Rhymes Of The Renegades

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        They Ignore The Dark Side Of Humanity

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        They're Living The Illusion That Were All Free

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        They'll Never Know How Many Could Be Saved

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        From The Lessons And The Rhymes Of The Renegades