《Tom Ames’ Prayer》歌词

歌曲： Tom Ames’ Prayer

所属专辑：Gringo Honeymoon

歌手： Robert Earl Keen

时长： 03:23

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Tom Ames' Prayer (汤姆·艾姆斯的祈祷) - Robert Earl Keen (罗伯特·伯爵基恩)[00:00:00]

Everyone in Nacodoches[00:00:05]

Knew Tom Ames would come to a bad end[00:00:06]

'Cause the sheriff caught him[00:00:10]

Stealin' chickens and such by the time he was ten[00:00:11]

One day his daddy took a ten dollar bill[00:00:15]

And tucked it in his hand[00:00:18]

He said I know you're headed for trouble son[00:00:20]

Your Momma wouldn't understand[00:00:23]

So he took his dad's money and his brother's old bay[00:00:25]

He left without a word of thanks[00:00:28]

He fell in with this crowd in some border town[00:00:30]

And he took to robbing banks[00:00:33]

Outside the law his luck run out fast[00:00:46]

A few years came and went[00:00:48]

Till he's trapped in an alley in Abilene[00:00:50]

With all but four shells spent[00:00:53]

And he realized prayin' was the only thing[00:00:56]

That he hadn't ever tried[00:00:58]

Well he wasn't sure he quite knew how[00:01:01]

But he looked up to the sky[00:01:03]

Said you don't owe me nothin' and as far as I know Lord[00:01:06]

I don't owe nothin' to you[00:01:09]

I ain't askin' for a miracle Lord[00:01:11]

Just a little bit of luck will do[00:01:13]

You know I ain't never prayed before[00:01:16]

'Cause it always seemed to me[00:01:18]

That prayin' is the same as beggin' Lord[00:01:21]

I don't take no charity[00:01:23]

But right now Lord with my back to the wall[00:01:36]

I can't help but recall[00:01:38]

How they nearly hung me for stealin' a horse[00:01:40]

In Fort Smith Arkansas[00:01:43]

Judge Parker said guilty and the gavel came down[00:01:46]

Just like a cannon shot[00:01:48]

I went away quietly[00:01:50]

I began to file a plot[00:01:53]

They sent the preacher down to my cell[00:01:56]

He said the Lord's your only hope[00:01:58]

He's the only friend you're gonna have son[00:02:00]

When you hit the end of Parker's rope[00:02:03]

And I guess he could have kept preachin' till Christmas[00:02:06]

But he turned his back on me[00:02:08]

I put a homemade blade to that golden throat[00:02:10]

Asked the deputy for the key[00:02:13]

It ain't the first trouble I've seen before[00:02:26]

As you already know[00:02:28]

I've had some help from you Lord and the Devil himself's[00:02:30]

Been strictly touch and go[00:02:33]

Yeah but who in the hell am I talkin' to[00:02:36]

There ain't no one here but me[00:02:38]

So he cocked both his pistols and he spit in the dirt[00:02:42]

And he walked out into that street[00:02:47]