Hair Trigger Colt .44

I'm a man who's goin' to hell with heaven's blessing

The judge said I'm not fit to live with men

They're building me a gallows in the courtyard

To make sure I don't pass this way again

My first taste of killin' was at Vicksburg

I must have shot me a hundred men

I learned to make my livin' with a six-gun

I'm an outlaw now but I was a hero then

Ohh Lord if I had only known the misery

That glory's somethin' not worth killin' for

I wish now I had never touched the handle

Of a Hairtrigger Colt .44

I was a hunted desperado

A wanted man with a price on my head

I thought that I could steal a taste of freedom

But I got me a hangman's noose instead

Ohh Lord if I had only known the misery

That glory's somethin' not worth killin' for

I wish now I had never touched the handle

Of a Hairtrigger Colt .44

Undertaker write on my tombstone

A killer finally killed and nothin' more

I wouldn't be here if it hadn't been for Providence

And a Hairtrigger Colt .44

Ohh Lord if I had only known the misery

That glory's somethin' not worth killin' for

I wish now I had never touched the handle

Of a Hairtrigger Colt .44

Ohh Lord if I had only known the misery

That glory's somethin' not worth killin' for

I wish now I had never touched the handle

Of a Hairtrigger Colt .44