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Black Magic Gun

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Black Magic Gun

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I was on the south road

Headed for Savannah

I was tired of being poor

Didn't suit me anymore

I'd sung up all the songs you dream on

Trying to stay ahead

The dollar I had left to life on

I'd drink'd it down instead

When I run up on this stranger in the dirt

and he looked like someone's finished dirty work

He was barely breathing

Wasn't nothing left to say

I helped myself and took his gun

He was dying anyway

I was down in Texas

Barely three months later

When I made myself a name

I had stumbled into fame

I shot a man from Louisiana

with the strangers gun

He never even cleared his holster

before the shot had run

And I'd never shot a six-gun in my life

So it's strange to me

How I could take a life

Now they're telling me I'm faster

Than any living man

It must have been black magic

I was holding in my hand

If I take it off they'll shoot me down

If I wear it someone dies

The devil made that deadly thing

You know I do not lie

I don't believe in fortune

I do believe in sin

It must have been black magic

In the gun that done him in

Headed south the border

Just outside Durango

When a sbullet split the night

Off behind me to my right

I never saw the coward's face

I never got a plant

I tried to get a shot off

I never got the chance

And the pain was like a pain I'd neer known

So I was satisfied I'd die alone

I was barely breathing

Wasn't nothing to be said

He helped hisself and stole my gun

and left me there for dead

If I take it off they'll shoot me down

If I wear it someone dies

The devil made that deadly thing

You know I do not lie

I don't believe in fortune

I do believe in sin

It must have been black magic

In the gun that done him in

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