Lyrics Narration 1 - Johnny Cash

One day on 1881 the Tombstone Epitaph
A booming newspaper in a booming silver mining town
Screamed out the headlines about a
gunfight at the OK Corral right downtown
The headlines read Murder In The Streets Of Tombstone
Well that wasn't such hot news but more stark and spine chilling
Than that was a sight on the
boardwalk in front of the Epitaph building
Neatly laid out in beautiful caskets were the bodies of Tom McLowery
Frank McLowery and young Billy Clanton twenty eight years old
A witness at the trial later said that he saw Doc Holliday
Blast away with a nickel plated pistol
And Billy Clanton screamed don't shoot me I don't wanna fight
Today there's no more silver mining in Tombstone
But up there on Boot Hill you can see where the graves of the men are
The ones who fought over or because of
that big silver strike that created Tombstone