Las Cruces Jail - Two Gallants

Well, I spent last night in Las Cruces jail

Rain and hail, born to fail

Nobody come for to go my bail

Sun, don’t you rise no more

I shot one man on the county line

Took his dime and I blew his mind

Now I’m just sitting here, doing time

Sun, don’t you rise no more

Well, a restless wind is whistling

Through my window, through my head

Through all the straits that I’ve survived

And in my hour of darkness

I keep counsel with the dead

Just enough to remind me I’m alive

I write to the governor to hear my plea

But he don’t even answer me

The judge said he’s gonna set my spirit free

Sun, don’t you rise no more

Gallows high, he chose the day

Friday the thirteenth of May

But I don’t plan to go that way

Sun, don’t you ruse no more

Goodnight, my Andalucia

Don’t buy all the lies that they feed you

And though you’re headed slowly

To some place I can’t respect

I’ll keep you in my collection of regret

And that’s twenty-one fell by my gun

Well they all fell the same

Just need one more to match my age

Then I’ll count my killing done

But I won’t deny my name:

Quickest wrist of the chaparral and sage

Well desperate times call for desperate men

I’m just a kid but I’ll pretend

My time will come, but until then

Sun, don’t you rise no more

But I see the gallows alter

That circle 'round the sun

They gonna hang me if I stay here

Shoot me if I run

That jailer better watch his pride

Or off my wrists these shackles slide

Hear my restless forty-five

Sun don’t you rise no more

Goodnight, my Andalucia

Don’t buy all the lies that they feed you

And though you’re headed slowly

To some place I can’t respect

I’ll keep you in my collection of regrets

Down the highway, down the road

To infamy I’ll ride

I’ll take my pardon on the run

With a trail of death behind me

And Deluvina at my side

Two silhouettes against the sun

Well, I spent last night in Las Cruces jail

Rain and hail, born to fail

Nobody come for to go my bail

Sun, don’t you rise no more