Hairtrigger Colt's .44 Songtext
von Chris LeDoux

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

Oh 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

Oh 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
But I wouldn′t be here if it hadn't been for Providence
And a Hairtrigger Colt .44

Oh 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


Oh 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