Pride and the badge
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1. All night long I tried to sleep, but sleep refused to come.
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‘cause
today I knew I'd either have to fight or run.
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Knowin'
if I choose to run my mind would never rest,
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‘cause
with so much pride I wear this badge upon my vest.
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2. Folks are filled with fear because there's
three bad guns in town,
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Sheriff Olsen made the wrong
move and they shot him down.
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One they called Dakota Jack,
and one El Paso Red,
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the
other just turned twenty and he's called the Killer Kid.
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3. Good advice I get, and that's to leave and run away,
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but
my pride and badge I wear won't let me live that way.
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If I stay the three have aimed
to add me to their list,
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but I
have a different aim and I don't aim to miss.
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4. From the doorway where I stand I see the
outlaws three,
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worried
none because they know the town's not helpin' me.
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From a hundred yards away I
try a lucky shot,
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luck
is with me and Dakota Jack dies on the spot.
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5. The Kid runs through the barroom door and Red goes up the stairs,
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the
Kid is ragin' mad, he's shootin'
bottles, kickin' chairs.
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From a roof El Paso Red has
vowed to pay me back,
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as he
views the lifeless body of Dakota Jack.
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6. I can see him, as he jumps from one roof to the next,
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searchin' for me, but he has no idea where I'm at.
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But I watch his every move, I'm ready when he leaps,
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as I
shoot him in mid air he crashes to the street.
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7. Now there's one against just one, I've evened up the score,
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down
the street I hear a yell come through the barroom door.
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The Kid has screamed, there's
no way I can live unless I run,
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said
there ain't no lawdog man
enough to take his gun.
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8. Through the barroom door he walks and steps out in the street,
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I can't match his draw, he's much too fast for me to beat.
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And as I walk toward him we
both grab a forty-five,
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maybe
I will die today and he will stay alive.
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9. Like a hammer somethin'
hits me, spinnin' me around,
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as I
fall I shoot him twice before he hits the ground.
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His bullet missed me, still I feel a burnin' in my
chest,
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his
bullet hit the badge I wear with pride upon my vest.
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10. As the people view the bodies of the lifeless three,
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from
their looks I know exactly what they think of me.
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To them I'm just a killer and
they could not care less
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'bout my pride or 'bout the
badge I wear upon my vest.
(Marty Robbins)