The Ballad Of Boot Hill

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Here lies Les Moore, 

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four slugs from a forty-four, 

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no Les no more. 


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Out in Arizona, just south of Tucson, 

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where tumbleweeds tumble in search of a home, 


there's a town they call Tombstone 

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where the brave never cry. 

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They live by a six-gun, by a six-gun they die. 


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It's been a long time now since the town was a boon. 

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The jailhouse is empty, so's the Palace Saloon. 

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Just one look will tell you that this town was real. 

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A secluded old dirt road leads up to Boot Hill. 


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Walk up to the fence there and look at the view; 

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That's where they were hangin', eighteen-eighty-two. 

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It's easy to see where the brave men died; 

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Rope marks on the old tree are now petrified. 


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At night, when the moon shines so far away, 

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It gets mighty lonesome, lookin' down on their graves. 

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There lies Billy Klen; never wanted to kill, 

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but he's there with the guilty, way up on Boot Hill.