| There ain’t no judge, no jury down around El Paso
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| Hangman posse blazing my trail before I get to Mexico
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| Thirteen guns were tracking, side the Rio Grande they rode
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| About a debt I owe, yeah!
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| Through the heat of the desert sun underneath a blackbirds wing
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| I keeping one step ahead of the gun
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| Or Ill be stretching my neck in a noose
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| Doing the hangman swing
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| Sheriff wants to lynch me for what I did to his wife
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| Well how was I to know it was her, but it damn sure was nice
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| Now they want to see me dancing on the end of a rope
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| About a debt I owe, yeah!
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| Through the heat of the desert sun underneath a blackbirds wing
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| I keeping one step ahead of the gun
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| Or Ill be stretching my neck in a noose
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| Doing the hangman swing
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| Hangman swing (hangman swing)
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| Its hangman swing, swing, swing
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| Hangman swing (hangman swing)
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| Cmon, swing boys, yeah!
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| Found me bout a half days ride from the border of Mexico
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| Put a bullet twixt my blades and my neck in a rope
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| Through the heat of the desert sun underneath a blackbirds wing
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| I keeping one step ahead of the gun
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| Or Ill be stretching my neck in a noose
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| Doing the hangman swing
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| Yeah, the hangman swing (hangman swing)
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| Its hangman swing, swing, swing
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| Hangman swing (hangman swing)
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| Yeah, the hangman swing (hangman swing)
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| Its the hangman swing (hangman swing)
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| Yeah, the hangman swing (hangman swing)
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| Well the hangman swing (hangman swing) |