Come on saddle up boys cause the Governor said He'll pay three thousand dollars for Murrieta's head I hear Joaquin Murrieta steals horses and gold He killed the sheriff in Mariposa or so I'm told He's the devil's bloody bastard, wicked and no good But all the Mexican's swear that he's Robin Hood Well with my wife and my sons, I work as hard as I can On thirteen acres of California land But the rains never came, I got debts I can't pay Now the bank's gonna steal my farm away
Come on, saddle up boys cause the Governor said He'll pay three thousand dollars for Murrieta's head He don't want him alive, he wants him dead He'll pay you three thousand dollars for Murrieta's head
I hear Joaquin Murrieta rides to avenge The murder of his wife by a mob of drunk men But I don't give a damn if it's a lie or if it's true Cause for his family, ain't much a man won't do Now you see the fever came around and my youngest boy took ill And I didn't' have the money to pay no doctor's bills So I buried his body neath that oak on the hill But if I had the money, I swear he'd be alive still
Come on, saddle up boys cause the Governor said He'll pay three thousand dollars for Murrieta's head He don't want him alive., he wants him dead He'll pay three thousand dollars for Murrieta's head
Well the Bible says you reap what you sow Well that could be true but I really don't know Well if it is, Murrieta will be damned to Hell And when I kill him, I'll be damned as well
Come on, saddle up boys cause the Governor said He'll pay three thousand dollars for Murrieta's head He don't want him alive., he wants him dead He'll pay three thousand dollars for Murrieta's head