Rhymes Of The Renegades

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        If You Listen Close When The Hot Wind Blows
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        Down The Dust Filled Streets Of Old Tombstone
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        You Might Hear An Old Rhyme Ringin'
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        Of The Legends Who Walked In Their Long Black Coats
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        And Their High Top Boots And Their .45 Colts
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        Right In To This Song I'm Singing
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        That The Ballad Mongers Made
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        Into The Rhymes Of The Renegades
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        Way Up In Dakota By The Deadwood Moon
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        Wild Bill's Ghost Haunts Number 10 Saloon
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        Where A Coward Came To Get Him
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        Bill Held A Dead Man's Hand Of Aces And Eights
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        With His Back To The Door He Tempted Fate
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        Old Bill Never Knew What Hit Him
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        Gamblin' His Life Away
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        To The Ryhmes Of The Renegades
            D
        And In All Of The Towns Too Tough To Die
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        Their Dancin' Up On Boot Hill Tonight
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        Laughin' At The Movies Hollywood Made
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        Dancing To The Rhymes Of The Renegades
            D
        And Billy The Kid Is Laughing Right Out Loud
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        At How They Turned Him Into A Hero Somehow
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        Who'll Cast A Third Stone At His Well Known Grave
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        While Chanting These Rhymes Of The Renegades
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        Way Out In California By A Long Dark Bend
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        And A Mask And Duster Blowing In The Wind
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        Black Bart Still Stands There Waitin'
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        And Out In El Paso The Thunder Cloud Rolls
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        Like John Wessley Hardin's Guns Long Ago
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        And The West Still Loves To Hate Him
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        For His Legend Will Not Fade
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        From The Rhymes Of The Renegades
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        And All Of The Robbers Who Rode Through Hell
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        And Danced On The Rope When The Gallows Fell
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        Their Demons Are Still With Us
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        And The Vigilantes Do More Evil Than Good
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        When They Masquarade Around Like Robin Hood
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        And They Ride At Night To Get Us
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        From The Owl Whoot Trails The Shades
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        Come The Rhymes Of The Renegades
            D
        And Could It Be True That Some Become Outlaws
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        Holdin' On To The Last To A Long Lost Cause
        D
        Diggin' Their Grave With A Silver Spade
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        Singing Hymes And Rhymes To The Renegades
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        Some Call It A Mystery When Waco Burns
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        From History They Refuse To Learn
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        They Turn Their Backs 'Till The Movie Deal's Made
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        Deaf To The Rhymes Of The Renegades
                D
        They'll Burn Down Up To Heaven And Stay (not sure of lyrics here)
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        Cause The Raid Out Laws On the Churches And Banks (not sure of lryics here)
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        They Enforce The Laws That Where Tailor Made
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        They Won't Hear The Rhymes Of The Renegades
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        They Ignore The Dark Side Of Humanity
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        They're Living The Illusion That Were All Free
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        They'll Never Know How Many Could Be Saved
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        From The Lessons And The Rhymes Of The Renegades