《Claude Dallas》歌词

[00:00:00] Claude Dallas - Ian Tyson

[00:00:10] In a land the Spanish once had called the Northern Mystery

[00:00:16] Where rivers run and disappear the mustang still is free

[00:00:21] By the Devil's wash and coyote hole in the wild Owyhee Range

[00:00:26] Somewhere in the sage tonight the wind calls out his name

[00:00:31] Ayeayeaye

[00:00:37] Come gather 'round me buckaroos and a story I will tell

[00:00:42] Of the fugitive Claude Dallas who just broke out of jail

[00:00:47] You might think this tale is history

[00:00:49] From before the West was won

[00:00:52] But the events that I'll describe

[00:00:54] Took place in nineteen eighty one

[00:01:00] He was born out in Virginialeft home

[00:01:03] When school was through

[00:01:05] In the deserts of Nevada he became a buckaroo

[00:01:10] And he learned the ways of cattleand

[00:01:13] He learned to sit a horse

[00:01:15] And he always packed a pistoland he practiced deadly force

[00:01:23] Then Claude he became a trapperand

[00:01:26] He dreamed of the bygone days

[00:01:29] And he studied bobcat logic and their wild and silent ways

[00:01:34] In the bloody runs near Paradise in monitors down south

[00:01:39] Trapping cats and coyotesliving hand to mouth

[00:01:44] Ayeayeaye

[00:01:50] Then Claude took to livin' all alone

[00:01:52] Out many miles from town

[00:01:55] A friend Jim Stevens brought supplies and he stayed to hang around

[00:02:00] That day two wardens Pogue and Elms rode into check Claude out

[00:02:05] They were seeking violations and to see what Claude's about

[00:02:13] Now Claude had hung some venisonhe had a bobcat pelt or two

[00:02:18] Pogue claimed they were out of seasonhe said Dallasyou're all thru

[00:02:24] But Dallas would not leave his camp

[00:02:27] He refused to go to town

[00:02:29] As the wind howled throught the bull camp

[00:02:32] They stared each other down

[00:02:37] It's hard to say what happend nextperhaps

[00:02:40] We'll never know

[00:02:42] They were gonna take Claude in to jailand

[00:02:45] He vowed he'd never go

[00:02:47] Jim Stevens heard the gunfireand when he turned around

[00:02:53] Bill Pogue was falling backwards

[00:02:55] Conley Elms he fell face down

[00:02:58] Ayeayeaye

[00:03:14] Jim stevens walked on overthere

[00:03:16] Was a gun near Bill Pogue's hand

[00:03:19] It was hard to say who drawn his firstbut

[00:03:22] Claude had made his stand

[00:03:24] Claude said I am justified Jimthey were gonna cut me down

[00:03:29] And a man's got a right to hang some meat

[00:03:32] When he's livin' this far from town

[00:03:37] It took eighteen men and fifteen months

[00:03:40] To finally run Claude down

[00:03:43] In the sage outside of Paradise they drove him to the ground

[00:03:48] Convicted up in Idaho manslaughter by decree

[00:03:54] Thirty years at maximum but soon

[00:03:56] Claude would break free

[00:04:01] There's two sides two this story there

[00:04:04] May be no right or wrong

[00:04:06] The lawman and the rene gade

[00:04:09] Have graced a thousand songs

[00:04:11] The story is an old one Conclusion's hard to draw

[00:04:16] But Claude's out in the sage tonight

[00:04:19] He may be the last out law

[00:04:21] Ayeayeaye

[00:04:27] In a land the Spanish once had called the Northern Mystery

[00:04:32] Where rivers run and disappear the mustang still is free

[00:04:37] By the Devil's wash and coyote hole in the wild Owy hee Range

[00:04:43] Somewhere in the sage tonight the wind calls out his name

[00:04:48] Ayeayeaye