《Tom Ames’ Prayer》歌词

[00:00:00] Tom Ames' Prayer (汤姆·艾姆斯的祈祷) - Robert Earl Keen (罗伯特·伯爵基恩)

[00:00:05] Everyone in Nacodoches

[00:00:06] Knew Tom Ames would come to a bad end

[00:00:10] 'Cause the sheriff caught him

[00:00:11] Stealin' chickens and such by the time he was ten

[00:00:15] One day his daddy took a ten dollar bill

[00:00:18] And tucked it in his hand

[00:00:20] He said I know you're headed for trouble son

[00:00:23] Your Momma wouldn't understand

[00:00:25] So he took his dad's money and his brother's old bay

[00:00:28] He left without a word of thanks

[00:00:30] He fell in with this crowd in some border town

[00:00:33] And he took to robbing banks

[00:00:46] Outside the law his luck run out fast

[00:00:48] A few years came and went

[00:00:50] Till he's trapped in an alley in Abilene

[00:00:53] With all but four shells spent

[00:00:56] And he realized prayin' was the only thing

[00:00:58] That he hadn't ever tried

[00:01:01] Well he wasn't sure he quite knew how

[00:01:03] But he looked up to the sky

[00:01:06] Said you don't owe me nothin' and as far as I know Lord

[00:01:09] I don't owe nothin' to you

[00:01:11] I ain't askin' for a miracle Lord

[00:01:13] Just a little bit of luck will do

[00:01:16] You know I ain't never prayed before

[00:01:18] 'Cause it always seemed to me

[00:01:21] That prayin' is the same as beggin' Lord

[00:01:23] I don't take no charity

[00:01:36] But right now Lord with my back to the wall

[00:01:38] I can't help but recall

[00:01:40] How they nearly hung me for stealin' a horse

[00:01:43] In Fort Smith Arkansas

[00:01:46] Judge Parker said guilty and the gavel came down

[00:01:48] Just like a cannon shot

[00:01:50] I went away quietly

[00:01:53] I began to file a plot

[00:01:56] They sent the preacher down to my cell

[00:01:58] He said the Lord's your only hope

[00:02:00] He's the only friend you're gonna have son

[00:02:03] When you hit the end of Parker's rope

[00:02:06] And I guess he could have kept preachin' till Christmas

[00:02:08] But he turned his back on me

[00:02:10] I put a homemade blade to that golden throat

[00:02:13] Asked the deputy for the key

[00:02:26] It ain't the first trouble I've seen before

[00:02:28] As you already know

[00:02:30] I've had some help from you Lord and the Devil himself's

[00:02:33] Been strictly touch and go

[00:02:36] Yeah but who in the hell am I talkin' to

[00:02:38] There ain't no one here but me

[00:02:42] So he cocked both his pistols and he spit in the dirt

[00:02:47] And he walked out into that street