《Johnson County War》歌词

[00:00:00] Johnson County War - Chris Ledoux

[00:01:21] Headed for Wyoming in 1882 a woman a team and a wagon

[00:01:26] Gonna make our dreams come true

[00:01:29] Settled in the foothills of the big horn mountain slope

[00:01:34] Life is sweet we lived on the meat of the deer and the antelope

[00:01:39] We cut house logs on the moutain with the team we hauled 'em down

[00:01:43] Peeled 'em and we stacked 'em up for a house and bought some ground

[00:01:48] Traded for some cattle and turned 'em out on the range

[00:01:52] The skies were blue and we never knew how things were gonna change

[00:01:58] Ole powder river you're muddy and wide how many men have died upon

[00:02:04] Your shores

[00:02:07] When you brand a man a rustler he's gotta take a side

[00:02:12] There's no middle ground in this Johnson country war

[00:02:19] Well the neighbors stopped by yesterday while I was outside choppin'

[00:02:22] Some wood

[00:02:23] And they filled me in on the local news ain't none of it sounded good

[00:02:27] Said they'd been some cattle stealin' by some no count outlaw bands

[00:02:32] We'd all been branded rustler's by the big ranchers of this land

[00:02:37] Well it was us against the cattlemen and the years just made it worse

[00:02:42] First the drought then the tough winter Johnson county had been dealt

[00:02:45] A curse

[00:02:47] Then their came the story about the two dry golgia tax

[00:02:51] Ranger Jones and John Tisdale both been shot in the back

[00:02:57] Oh powder river you're muddy and you're wide

[00:03:01] How many men have died upon your shores

[00:03:06] When you brand a man a rustler he's gotta take a side

[00:03:11] There's no middle ground in this Johnson county war

[00:03:18] Then last night at supper time riders stopped by chance

[00:03:22] They said cattleman and hired guns just burned the Kaycee Ranch

[00:03:27] Two men had died this mornin' shot down in the snow

[00:03:31] Now the vigilante army was marchin' for buffalo

[00:03:37] Well the county was in an uproar an every man saddled up to ride

[00:03:41] Caught the cattlemen at the TA Ranch and surrounded all four sides

[00:03:46] We hailed the house with bullets and swore we'd make 'em pay

[00:03:50] But the calvery came across the plains and once again saved the day

[00:03:58] Well they marched 'em off to Cheyenne and no one went to jail

[00:04:03] The cattlemen we're all turned loose and the hired guns hit the trail

[00:04:07] And I guess the only justice wasn't much to say the least

[00:04:11] Last winter me and mine ate mighty fine on the cattle baron's beef

[00:04:18] Oh powder river you're muddy and you're wide

[00:04:22] How many men have died upon your shores

[00:04:26] When you brand a man a rustler he's gotta take a side

[00:04:32] There's no middle ground in this Johnson county war

[00:04:36] There's no middle ground in this Johnson county war