《Claude Dallas》歌词

[00:00:09] In a land the Spanish once had called the Northern Mystery

[00:00:14] Where rivers run and disappear the mustang still is free

[00:00:20] 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

[00:00:32] Aye aye aye

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

[00:00:43] Of the fugitive Claude Dallas who just broke out of jail

[00:00:48] You might think this tale is history from before the West was won

[00:00:54] But the events that I'll describe took place in nineteen eighty one

[00:01:01] He was born out in Virginia left home when school was through

[00:01:06] In the deserts of Nevada he became a buckaroo

[00:01:12] And he learned the ways of cattle and he learned to sit a horse

[00:01:18] And he always packed a pistol and he practiced deadly force

[00:01:25] Then Claude he became a trapper and he dreamed of the bygone days

[00:01:30] And he studied bobcat logic and their wild and silent ways

[00:01:36] In the bloody runs near Paradise in monitors down south

[00:01:41] Trapping cats and coyotes living hand to mouth

[00:01:46] Aye aye aye

[00:01:52] Then Claude took to livin' all alone out many miles from town

[00:01:58] A friend Jim Stevens brought supplies and he stayed to hang around

[00:02:03] That day two wardens Pogue and Elms rode into check Claude out

[00:02:09] They were seeking violations and to see what Claude's about

[00:02:16] Now Claude had hung some venison he had a bobcat pelt or two

[00:02:21] Pogue claimed they were out of season he said Dallas you're all thru

[00:02:27] But Dallas would not leave his camp

[00:02:30] He refused to go to town

[00:02:32] As the wind howled throught the bull camp they stared each other down

[00:02:39] Its hard to say what happend next perhaps we'll never know

[00:02:45] They were gonna take Claude in to jail and he vowed he'd never go

[00:02:50] Jim Stevens heard the gunfire and when he turned around

[00:02:55] Bill Pogue was falling backwards Conley Elms he fell face down

[00:03:00] Aye aye aye

[00:03:30] Jim stevens walked on over there was a gun near Bill Pogue's hand

[00:03:36] It was hard to say who drawn his first but Claude had made his stand

[00:03:42] Claude said I am justified Jim they were gonna cut me down

[00:03:47] And a man's got a right to hang some meat

[00:03:50] When he's livin' this far from town

[00:03:56] It took eighteen men and fifteen months to finally run Claude down

[00:04:02] In the sage outside of Paradise they drove him to the ground

[00:04:10] Convicted up in Idaho manslaughter by decree

[00:04:15] Thirty years at maximum but soon Claude would break free

[00:04:21] There's two sides two this story there may be no right or wrong

[00:04:27] The lawman and the renegade have graced a thousand songs

[00:04:32] The story is an old one

[00:04:35] Conclusion's hard to draw

[00:04:38] But Claude's out in the sage tonight he may be the last outlaw

[00:04:43] Aye aye aye

[00:04:49] In a land the Spanish once had called the Northern Mystery

[00:04:54] Where rivers run and disappear the mustang still is free

[00:05:00] By the Devil's wash and the coyote hole in the wild Owyhee Range

[00:05:06] Somewhere in the sage tonight the wind calls out his name

[00:05:11] Aye aye aye