Give up your guns (1972)
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1. When I woke up this morning, I found myself alone,
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I turned to touch her hair, but she was gone,
she was gone.
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And there beside my pillow
were her tears from the night before,
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she
said, “Give up your guns and face the law !”
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2. I robbed a bank in Tampa and I thought I had it made,
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but
the hounds picked up my trail within the ‘Glades, so I ran.
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And I stumbled on this cabin,
and she came to me once more,
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she
said, “Give up your guns and face the law !”
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I don't wanna
leave her, I don’t wanna die,
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deep
within the cold, cold grave with no one ‘round to cry.
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But I got my pistol, now it’s
time to choose,
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shootin' here or hanging there and either way I lose.
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3. And now I'm in this cabin, where my own true love should be,
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instead,
there lies a note she wrote to me and it says :
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“Though you
can't live by the bullet, you sure as death can die.
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My love, give up your guns,
and say good bye, good bye.”
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And the sheriff now is calling
with a shotgun at my door.
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“Son... give
up your guns and face the la.............................w.
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(orig. = capo 3rd) (The Buoys)