I’ve got a long dark story The story of a man named Pride The story of a man named Pride And how the gun was how he lived and died
Well Pride was a little boy back in ’76 His legs got strong and his arms got long And he moved to the city from the sticks
He started to grow a head taller Than any of the other boys He learned how to twirl the guns and the girls And he treated ‘em both like toys
Well someday Pride grew up too easy And the money rolled in too quick Well he messed around with the girls ’round town But none of them could make him stick Till the day that he met his lady When she walked right in the door With a cherry tongue and with legs like rum She had never been in town before
Her name was anything but love One look was enough And Pride went off and fell in love That night
Oh I said I got a long dark story The story of a man named Pride The story of a man named Pride Oh the gun was how he lived and died
So Pride and his cherry tongued lady Had been together for a couple of years And love was wine and death in bind With liquor mixed up with seers
One night Pride and the lady were out drinking When she walks right in the door With another man, strong, tall and tan He’d never been in that town before
Her name was anything but love Pride had seen enough He got up to go and pick his final fight He said “Hello my name is Pride, And that there, that’s my wife And this here, this here’s the night That your gonna die”
Well the strong tall man spoke slowly He said “I’ve killed too many men before To care about killing one more tonight” And two shots broke the silence One landed in the strangers side The other one of the two Whose aim was equally true Well a bullet found a man named pride
His name was anything but love But a bullet was enough Well the gun was how he lived and died Cause you see everybody dies Some folks long before their time Some folks get shot down in their prime
And it was on that fatal night That the two men shot and died And one of them was a man A man named Pride
Oh, I got a long dark story The story of a man named Pride The story of a man named Pride Oh the gun was how he lived and died
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