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Sam Bass was born in Indiana, it was his native home, |
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And at the age of seventeen Sam began to roam. |
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When Sam first came to Texas a cowboy for to be |
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A kinder-hearted fellow you seldom ever see. |
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Sam used to deal in race-stock, one called the Denton mare; |
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He matched her in scrub races and he took her to the fair. |
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He used to coin the money, and spent it rather free; |
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He always drank good whiskey wherever he might be. |
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Sam he left the Collins ranch in the early month of May, |
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With a herd of Texas cattle the Black Hills for to see; |
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Sold out in Custer City, and then went on a spree |
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And a tougher set of cowboys you seldom ever see. |
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On their way back to Texas they robbed the U.P. train, |
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And then split up in couples and started out again; |
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Joe Collins and his partner was overtaken soon, |
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With all their hard-earned money they had to meet their doom. |
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Sam had four companions, four bold and daring lads |
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Frank Jackson, Harry Underwood, Joe Collins, and Old Dad; |
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Such bold and daring cowboys Rangers never knew, |
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They whipped the Texas Rangers and they ran the boys in blue. |
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Jim Murphy was arrested, and then released on bail; |
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He jumped his bond at Tyler and then they took off on the trail; |
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But Mayor Barnes had posted him and that was all a stall, |
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It was a plan to capture Sam before the coming fall. |
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Sam met his fate at Round Rock, July the twenty-first, |
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They pierced poor Sam with rifle balls and emptied out his purse. |
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Sam he is now a corpse and six foot under clay, |
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And Jackson's on the border till trying to get away. |
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Jim he stole Sam's good gold and he didn't want to pay, |
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The only way he saw to win was to give poor Sam away. |
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he sold out Sam and Barnes and he left their friends to mourn- |
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What a scorching Jim will get when Gabriel blows his horn! |
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Jim Murphy sold out Sam and Barnes and left their friends to mourn |
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and what a scorching Jim will get when Gabriel blows his horn! |
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Perhaps he's gone to heaven, there's none of us can say, |
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But if I'm right in my surmise he's gone the other way. |
