A tall handsome stranger rode into town
With fire in his eyes burnin' red as sundown
His boots were all dusty, his coat open wide
Six ways of dyin' hung low on his side
He went in the town hall askin' for me
They told him that I was still town deputy
I sent him to prison to pay for his crime
He killed a guard on the Sante Fe Line
He spread word around town that my time had come
My notch was already carved on his gun
He's laughin' and braggin' and havin' his fun
It's all a show for he knows I won't run
That night in silence the town was asleep
I sat by my window and looked down the street
I wished in my heart that he'd just ride away
I hated to face him at sunup that day
I met him at sunup, the crowd gathered 'round
Waitin' and watchin' for one to go down
He grabbed for his six gun, tryin' his best
He cursed as my bullet went deep in his chest
He stood there a moment and looked all around
Slowly and lifeless he fell to the ground
The stranger's my brother, born an outlaw
He must have forgotton I taught him to draw
The whole town was waitin' and I was alone
The blood that I spilled was just like my own
When she hears this story, how Mother will cry
Brother against brother and one had to die..
to die...to die