I'm a man who's goin' to Hell with Heaven's blessin'
The judge said I'm not fit to live with men
They're buildin' me a gallows in the courtyard
To make sure I don't pa** this way again
My first taste of k**in' was at Vicksburg
I must have shot me a hundred men
I learned to make my livin' with a six-gun
I'm an outlaw now but I was a hero then
Lord if I had only known the misery
That glory's somethin' not worth k**in' for
I wish now I had never touched the handle
Of a hair-trigger Colt .44
I was a hunted desperado
A wanted man with a price on my head
I thought that I could steal a taste of freedom
I got me a hangman's noose instead
Lord if I had only known the misery
That glory's somethin' not worth k**in' for
I wish now I had never touched the handle
Of a hair-trigger Colt .44
Undertaker write on my tombstone
A k**er finally k**ed and nothin' more
I wouldn't be here if it hadn't been for Providence
And that hair-trigger Colt .44
Lord if I had only known the misery
That glory's somethin' not worth k**in' for
I wish now I had never touched the handle
Of a hair-trigger Colt .44
Lord if I had only known the misery
That glory's somethin' not worth k**in' for
I wish now I had never touched the handle
Of a hair-trigger Colt .44