Ballad of Old Bill

Old William said, many years ago
I won’t live a usual life
Oh no I won’t wear the union suit
And no one will be my wife
But I will find love near and far, wherever I may go
And I’ll bring roses and lilies to their doors
And have a son I don’t know

It’s a wicked world when you’re all alone
It’s a wicked and mean old place
Take your saddle and horse and ride away

There’s followers and leaders and battle weary heroes
And I am none of them
When I arrived I might have been a drinkеr
But I was longing for a friend
I’m a rider, ranging thesе far out hills, lonely and so wild
So wild, I’ve lived for free, and out here I will die

I’ll be dead the next few years, not in some old home
Out alone on the back of old Dan
And I hope for a quick blow
And the one son I leave behind, he will find no will
I believe in the natural way of man
Oh kill or he be killed