Rhymes Of The Renegades

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From: Jason Neus 

 
Subject: Rhymes of the Renegades


        Rhymes Of The Renegades (Michael Martin Murphy)
        ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Perfromed By Michael Martin Murphey

        
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        If You Listen Close When The Hot Wind Blows
                 
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        Down The Dust Filled Streets Of Old Tombstone
                  
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        You Might Hear An Old Rhyme Ringin'
               
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        Of The Legends Who Walked In Their Long Black Coats
            
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        And Their High Top Boots And Their .45 Colts
                 
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        Right In To This Song I'm Singing
                 
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        That The Ballad Mongers Made
                 
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        Into The Rhymes Of The Renegades
            
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        Way Up In Dakota By The Deadwood Moon
             
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        Wild Bill's Ghost Haunts Number 10 Saloon
                
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        Where A Coward Came To Get Him
                    
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        Bill Held A Dead Man's Hand Of Aces And Eights
                 
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        With His Back To The Door He Tempted Fate
            
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        Old Bill Never Knew What Hit Him
        
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        Gamblin' His Life Away
               
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        To The Ryhmes Of The Renegades
            
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        And In All Of The Towns Too Tough To Die
              
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        Their Dancin' Up On Boot Hill Tonight
        
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        Laughin' At The Movies Hollywood Made
        
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        Dancing To The Rhymes Of The Renegades
            
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        And Billy The Kid Is Laughing Right Out Loud
           
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        At How They Turned Him Into A Hero Somehow
               
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        Who'll Cast A Third Stone At His Well Known Grave
              
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        While Chanting These Rhymes Of The Renegades
            
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        Way Out In California By A Long Dark Bend
              
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        And A Mask And Duster Blowing In The Wind
              
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        Black Bart Still Stands There Waitin'
            
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        And Out In El Paso The Thunder Cloud Rolls
             
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        Like John Wessley Hardin's Guns Long Ago
                
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        And The West Still Loves To Hate Him
                
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        For His Legend Will Not Fade
                 
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        From The Rhymes Of The Renegades
            
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        And All Of The Robbers Who Rode Through Hell
            
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        And Danced On The Rope When The Gallows Fell
              
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        Their Demons Are Still With Us
                
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        And The Vigilantes Do More Evil Than Good
                  
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        When They Masquarade Around Like Robin Hood
                 
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        And They Ride At Night To Get Us
                 
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        From The Owl Whoot Trails The Shades
                 
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        Come The Rhymes Of The Renegades
            
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        And Could It Be True That Some Become Outlaws
                
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        Holdin' On To The Last To A Long Lost Cause
        
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        Diggin' Their Grave With A Silver Spade
                
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        Singing Hymes And Rhymes To The Renegades
             
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        Some Call It A Mystery When Waco Burns
             
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        From History They Refuse To Learn
             
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        They Turn Their Backs 'Till The Movie Deal's Made
        
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        Deaf To The Rhymes Of The Renegades
                
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        They'll Burn Down Up To Heaven And Stay (not sure of lyrics here)
                  
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        Cause The Raid Out Laws On the Churches And Banks (not sure of lryics here)
             
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        They Enforce The Laws That Where Tailor Made
                   
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        They Won't Hear The Rhymes Of The Renegades
             
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        They Ignore The Dark Side Of Humanity
                
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        They're Living The Illusion That Were All Free
                
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        They'll Never Know How Many Could Be Saved
                 
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        From The Lessons And The Rhymes Of The Renegades