Don't Take Your Guns to Town - Johnny Cash & Willie Nelson

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Uploaded by on Oct 18, 2009

A young cowboy named Billy Joe grew restless on the farm
A boy filled with wonderlust who really meant no harm
He changed his clothes and shined his boots
And combed his dark hair down
And his mother cried as he walked out

Don't take your guns to town son
Leave your guns at home Bill
Don't take your guns to town

He laughed and kissed his mom
And said your Billy Joe's a man
I can shoot as quick and straight as anybody can
But I wouldn't shoot without a cause
I'd gun nobody down
But she cried again as he rode away

Don't take your guns to town son
Leave your guns at home Bill
Don't take your guns to town

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
But his mother's words echoed again

Don't take your guns to town son
Leave your guns at home Bill
Don't take your guns to town

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

Don't take your guns to town son
Leave your guns at home Bill
Don't take your guns to town

Filled with rage then
Billy Joe reached for his gun 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

Don't take your guns to town son
Leave your guns at home Bill
Don't take your guns to town

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  • My Grandmother knew both Willie Nelson and Johnny Cash, as well as many other Country Stars it was always fun to listen to her stories about them coming to her restaurant . God Rest her Soul.

  • Two legends of country music!

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  • 1 dislike? this person needs their head examined. immediately.

  • I love this CD, VH1 Storytellers Johnny and Willie. It's an amazing CD!

  • Willie can play Trigger so greatly that it sounds like it is almost singing the words. I've never heard a version of him playing that exlemplifies this better. Way better guitar sound than Pete Townsend's tallking guitar!

  • aino.keski.ikkela@gmail.com

  • Sick!

  • Legends not just Country look at some of your Alternative records and see if you don't see these guys names listed! Legends in Music.

  • TEMAZO!!

  • love that version

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