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Dont Take Your Guns To Town

by Johnny Cash! · posted by TIN_MAN

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DONT TAKE YOUR GUNS TO TOWN 
JOHNNY CASH 


Hey Y’all its Tin Man again giving you one of Country
Music’s big hits and a legendary classic 
From the man in black himself!

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A young cow-boy named Bil-ly Joe, 

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grew rest-less on the farm. 

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A boy filled with won-der-lust 

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who real-ly meant no harm. 

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He changed his clothes, and shined his boots  

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And combed his dark hair down. 

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And his moth-er cried as he walked out 


(CHORUS) 


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Dont take your guns to town, son

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Leave your guns at home  Bill 

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Dont take your guns to town. 

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He laughed and kissed his ma and said your Billy 
Joes a man. 
I can shoot as quick and straight as anybody can. 
But I wouldn’t shoot without a cause Id gun nobody 
down. 
But she cried again as he rode away

(CHORUS)
 

He sang a song as on he rode his guns hung at his hips. 
He rode into a cattle town a smile upon his lips. 
He stopped and walked into a bar and laid his money down. 
And his mother’s words echoed again: 

(CHORUS) 

He drank his first strong liqour then to calm his 
shaking hand and tried to tell himself at last 
he had become a man A dusty cowpoke at his side 
began to laugh him down. 
And he heard again his mothers words 

(CHORUS) 

Bill was raged and Billy Joe reached for his guns 
to draw But the stranger drew his gun and fired 
before he even saw As Billy Joe fell to the floor 
the crowd all gathered round And wondered 
at his final words


ENJOY!!
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