Tom Russell《Claude Dallas》[MP3_LRC]

[00:00.00]90听音乐网 www.90T8.com  [00:09.51]In a land the Spanish once had called the Northern Mystery [00:14.97]Where rivers run and disappear the mustang still is free [00:20.73]By the Devil's wash and coyote hole in the wild Owyhee Range [00:26.52]Somewhere in the sage tonight the wind calls out his name [00:32.10]Aye aye aye [00:37.86]Come gather 'round me buckaroos and a story I will tell [00:43.47]Of the fugitive Claude Dallas who just broke out of jail [00:48.90]You might think this tale is history from before the West was won [00:54.45]But the events that I'll describe took place in nineteen eighty one [01:01.29]He was born out in Virginia left home when school was through [01:06.90]In the deserts of Nevada he became a buckaroo [01:12.69]And he learned the ways of cattle and he learned to sit a horse [01:18.18]And he always packed a pistol and he practiced deadly force [01:25.08]Then Claude he became a trapper and he dreamed of the bygone days [01:30.72]And he studied bobcat logic and their wild and silent ways [01:36.18]In the bloody runs near Paradise in monitors down south [01:41.94]Trapping cats and coyotes living hand to mouth [01:46.71]Aye aye aye [01:52.62]Then Claude took to livin' all alone out many miles from town [01:58.32]A friend Jim Stevens brought supplies and he stayed to hang around [02:03.63]That day two wardens Pogue and Elms rode into check Claude out [02:09.30]They were seeking violations and to see what Claude's about [02:16.20]Now Claude had hung some venison he had a bobcat pelt or two [02:21.81]Pogue claimed they were out of season he said Dallas you're all thru [02:27.54]But Dallas would not leave his camp [02:30.09]He refused to go to town [02:32.85]As the wind howled throught the bull camp they stared each other down [02:39.87]Its hard to say what happend next perhaps we'll never know [02:45.21]They were gonna take Claude in to jail and he vowed he'd never go [02:50.49]Jim Stevens heard the gunfire and when he turned around [02:55.77]Bill Pogue was falling backwards Conley Elms he fell face down [03:00.90]Aye aye aye [03:30.99]Jim stevens walked on over there was a gun near Bill Pogue's hand [03:36.66]It was hard to say who drawn his first but Claude had made his stand [03:42.03]Claude said I am justified Jim they were gonna cut me down [03:47.52]And a man's got a right to hang some meat [03:50.19]When he's livin' this far from town [03:56.97]It took eighteen men and fifteen months to finally run Claude down [04:02.55]In the sage outside of Paradise they drove him to the ground [04:10.02]Convicted up in Idaho manslaughter by decree [04:15.63]Thirty years at maximum but soon Claude would break free [04:21.63]There's two sides two this story there may be no right or wrong [04:27.51]The lawman and the renegade have graced a thousand songs [04:32.91]The story is an old one [04:35.70]Conclusion's hard to draw [04:38.28]But Claude's out in the sage tonight he may be the last outlaw [04:43.17]Aye aye aye [04:49.11]In a land the Spanish once had called the Northern Mystery [04:54.87]Where rivers run and disappear the mustang still is free [05:00.30]By the Devil's wash and the coyote hole in the wild Owyhee Range [05:06.06]Somewhere in the sage tonight the wind calls out his name [05:11.13]Aye aye aye