Outlaw Friends (Live Acoustic)

I left Tucson on a two rail, headed east across the planes

On an iron horse choking black coal, number seven prison train

I was chained up in a box car, they took my pistol and my pride

They were taking me back to Texas and planned to hang me for my crimes

I ain't never met no shackles that could ever tie me down

You know it always feels like flying right up 'til you hit the ground

And I can hear her whistlin' Dixie, so pour the whiskey 'til it's gone

'Cause I've known friends and I've known outlaws, but all my outlaw friends are gone

And I can taste the smoke and embers, as the engine climbs the pass

And if they walked me to the gallows, I guess that long walk will be my last

But there's a short knife in my boot leg and we ain't made Fort Worth yet

If I get free and kill these guards, just add that to my regrets

'Cause I ain't never met no shackles that could ever tie me down

You know it always feels like flying right up 'til you hit the ground

And I can hear her whistlin' Dixie, so pour the whiskey 'til it's gone

'Cause I've known friends and I've known outlaws, but all my outlaw friends are gone

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I pray for faith and for forgiveness

But I'm not sure he hears my call

Some say deaths, the only freedom

Did I stumble or did I fall?

I ain't never met no shackle that could ever tie me down

You know it always feels like flying right up 'til you hit the ground

And I can hear her whistlin' Dixie, so pour the whiskey 'till it's gone

'Cause I've known friends and I've known outlaws, but all my outlaw friends are gone

I've known friends and I've known outlaws, but all my outlaw friends are gone