Hairtrigger Colt's .44 - Chris Ledoux

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 pass this way again

My first taste of killin' 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 mis’ry

That glory’s somethin' not worth killin' 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

Oh, Lord, if I had only known the mis’ry

That glory’s somethin' not worth killin' for

I wish now I had never touched the handle

Of a hair-trigger Colt .44

Undertaker write on my tombstone

«A killer finally killed» and nothin' more

But 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 mis’ry

That glory’s somethin' not worth killin' for

I wish now I had never touched the handle

Of a hair-trigger Colt .44

Lord if I had only known the mis’ry

That glory’s somethin' not worth killin' for

I wish now I had never touched the handle

Of a hair-trigger Colt .44