Johnny Cash - Don't Take Your Guns to Town Lyrics

Lyrics Don't Take Your Guns to Town - 225



A young cowboy named Billy Joe grew restless on the farm
A boy filled with wanderlust 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 at last he had become a man
A dusty cowpoke at his side began to laugh him down
And he heard again his mother's 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"



Writer(s): Maurice Johnson, Horace Andy


Johnny Cash - Love, God, Murder

1 I Walk the Line
2 Oh What A Dream
3 All Over Again
4 A Little At a Time
5 My Old Faded Rose
6 Happiness Is You
7 Flesh and Blood
8 I Tremble For You
9 I Feel Better All Over
10 'Cause I Love You
11 Ballad Of Barbara
12 Ring of Fire
13 My Shoes Keep Walking Back To You
14 While I've Got It On My Mind
15 I Still Miss Someone
16 The One Rose (That's Left In My Heart)
17 What On Earth (Will You Do for Heaven's Sake)
18 My God Is Real
19 It Was Jesus
20 Why Me Lord
21 The Greatest Cowboy Of Them All
22 Redemption
23 The Great Speckle Bird
24 The Old Account
25 Swing Low, Sweet Chariot
26 When He Comes
27 Were You There? (When They Crucified My Lord)
28 Man In White
29 Belshazzar
30 Oh, Bury Me Not (Introduction: A Cowboy's Prayer) [Mono]
31 Oh Come Angel Band
32 Folsom Prison Blues
33 Delia's Gone
34 Mister Garfield
35 Orleans Parish Prison
36 When It's Springtime In Alaska (It's Forty Below) [Mono]
37 The Sound of Laughter
38 Cocaine Blues
39 Hardin Wouldn't Run
40 The Long Black Veil
41 Austin Prison
42 Joe Bean
43 Going to Memphis
44 Don't Take Your Guns to Town
45 Highway Patrolman
46 Jacob Green
47 The Wall



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