Spirit Boy lyrics

Spirit Boy

There`s a little girl down south
And her daddy`s got a ranch
`Bout as big as my town
And one day I swear
I`m gonna go down there and get her out
From the letter that I got last fall
She said you know you`re the one I love most of all
But my face is up on the sheriff`s wall
And there`s reward signs posted up
And down the red river line
That I cross that very night
Trying to find my heart and looking for a fight
And there were four guards standing on the wall
I drew two six-guns
And I watched them fall
Oh yeah
Yeah
Well I came busting through them gates
Into a 12 gauge and a 38
But I was quick on the draw and I got `em all
Yelled out to Rosa Bella
As she came walking softly through the night
Her hair so long and looking at me
With those big blue eyes
I grabbed her hand and we ran to leave
But her daddy came a-running from around a tree
And said
`Ain`t no way my daughter`s leaving here with no cherokee`
Oh yeah
Well, in my rage and to his surprise
I looked him deep in his buckshot eyes
And he had his hand on his gun but I was holding mine
And I`m running down this indian highway
In a ball of red
I got a loaded gun and things are goin` my way for a change
Well, you might think that I`m gonna be swingin` from a tree
Oh, no I`m a spirit boy
Ain`t nobody gonna catch me
No, yeah, yeah, yeah...
(chanting)
We made love that very night
Under a burnt auburn cancun sky
I guess now I`m a Mexican
`Cause in Texas I`m a wanted man
She got up in an all-white gown
From the man who shot her daddy down
Somewhere in the heat of the night there was a shot & idots
And I`m running down this indian highway
In a ball of red
I got a loaded gun and things are goin` my way for a change
Yeah
Well, you might think that I`m gonna be swingin` from a tree
I know I`m a spirit boy
Ain`t nobody gonna catch me
Yeah
I`m a spirit boy
Ain`t nobody gonna catch me
Yeah
I`m a spirit boy
Yeah
Ain`t nobody gonna catch me
Yeah