Intro: A
A Bm
Dust on my saddle mud on my boots
E E7 A
Couple of empty saddle bags except for two old suits
Bm
I'm tired and I'm hungry worried as can be
E E7 A F#
Last night I saw a poster and they're still after me
verse 1
F# G#m
They claim we were in Clinton last year in the month of June
C# C#7 F#
They said on the night of the seventeenth in Katy's old saloon
G#m
A man was shot in cold blood in a friendly poker game
C# C#7 F# A
I don't know how it happened but somehow I got the blame
Bm
Dust on my saddle mud on my boots
E E7 A
A couple of empty saddle bags except for two old suits
Bm
I'm tired and I'm hungry worried as can be
E E7 A F#
Last night I saw a poster and they're still after me
verse 2
G#m
Well I've worked up in the gold mines and I've logged up in the hills
C# C#7 F#
Come spring I'd drive the herds up come fall I'd work the mills
G#m
Well I've done most ev'ry kind of work from letter A to Z
C# C#7 F#
I guess I'll be a ridin' now the past is chasing me
A Bm
Dust on my saddle, mud on my boots
E E7 A
A couple of empty saddle bags except for two old suits
Bm
I'm tired and I'm hungry worried as can be
E E7 A F#
Last night I saw a poster and they're still after me
verse 3
G#m
Six years now since that fateful day my ridin' days have ceased
C# C#7 F#
Well I'm hidin' out in Kansas now they think I am a priest
G#m
I'm carryin' a Bible instead of a forty five
C# C#7 F#
Rememberin' that poster sayin' "Dead or Alive"
verse 4
G#m
The Sunday sermon's over I look out towards the bar
C# C#7 F#
Several men are comin' one has on a star
G#m
Well I guess this time they caught me runnin' ain't no use
C# C#7 F#
This robe will never stop them they think they know the truth
Verse 5
G#m
But now the star is speaking he says that I am free
C# C#7 F#
These years I spent a runnin' they didn't have to be
G#m
Well they caught their man six years ago right after I left town
C# C#7 F#
My ridin' days are over now and I can settle down
A Bm
Dust on my saddle mud on my boots
E E7 A
A couple of empty saddle bags except for two old suits
Bm
I'm tired and I'm hungry worried as can be
E E7 A
Last night I saw a poster and they're still after me
Outro
Bm
Dust on my saddle mud on my boots
E E7 A
A couple of empty saddle bags except for two old suits
Bm
I'm tired and I'm hungry lonely as can be
E E7 A
I'm bound for Carolina and my family