Pride And The Badge

All night long I tried to sleep but sleep refused to come

Cause today I knew I'd either have to fight or run

Knowin' if I choose to run my mind would never rest

Cause with so much pride I wear this badge upon my vest

Folks are filled with fear because there's three bad guns intown

Sheriff Olsen made the wrong move and they shot him down

One they called Dakota Jack and one El Paso Red

The other just turned twenty and he's called the Killer Kid

Good advice I get and that's to leave and run away

But my pride and badge I wear won't let me live this way

And if I stay the three have bragged they'll add me to theirlist

But I have a different aim and I don't aim to miss

From the doorway where I stand I see the outlaws three

Worried none because they know the town's not helpin' me

From a hundred yards away I try a lucky shot

Luck is with me and Dakota Jack dies on the spot

Well a kid runs through the barroom door and Red goes up thestairs

The Kid is ragin' mad, he's breakin' bottles, kickin' chairs

And from a roof El Paso Red has vowed to pay me back

As he views the lifeless body of Dakota Jack

I can see him as he jumps from one roof to the next

Searchin' for me but he has no idea where I'm at

But I watch his every move I'm ready when he leaps

As I shoot him in mid air he crashes to the street

Now there's one against just one I've evened up the score

Down the street I hear a yell come through the barroom door

The Kid has screamed, there's no way I can live unless I run

Said there ain't no lawdog man enough to take his gun

Through the barroom door he walks and steps out on the street

I can't match his draw, he's much too fast for me to beat

And as I walk toward him we both grab a forty-five

Maybe I will die today and he will stay alive

Like a hammer somethin' hits me spinnin' me around

As I fall I shoot him twice before he hits the ground

His bullet missed me , still I feel a burnin' in my chest

His bullet hits the badge I wear with pride upon my vest

As the people view the bodies of the lifeless three

From their looks I know exactly what they think of me

To them I'm just a killer and they could not care less

'Bout my pride or 'bout the badge I wear upon my vest