Mickey Newbury - Help Me Son lyrics

Help me son Will you kindly help me to my feet A gentle man is waiting in the street The sun is rising Listen boy Can't you hear the hounds of hell They are standing at my gate they wail The sun is rising Through the years I have been cut and shot right to the bone I have been cut and shot right to the bone I am d**hly tired and all alone Won't you help me son Kindly help me to my feet A gentle man is waiting in the street And the sun is rising Won't you help me boy It is over now Pick up my guns and walk me to my horse Leave the ba*tard lying here Like some hog-tied steer Listen to me boy He will live to k** another day Never turn your back on him and say It is done Will you help me son Will you help me son Will you help me son The sun is rising