Texas

Following the Brazos river
 Down to Mexico
 I am a wanted outlaw
 And I've got nowhere left to go
 I'm running from a bank job
 That I did in Ohio
 Well, lady luck and aces full
 Put me back out in the cold
 I spent the night in the mission
 Filled with hungry ghosts and stone
 Not far from the border
 In a town called San Anton'
 I woke up to a ruckus
 It chilled me to the bone
 And my pistols drew
 And bullets flew
 But I was all alone
 Crossing the Nueces River
 Westbound with the herd
 I'd signed up with a drover
 And I took him at his word
 Evening came on quiet
 My guilty heart was stirred
 To see the sun go sinkin'
 Past the point of no return
 Sold the cattle in Del Rio
 Collected all my pay
 And I stared across the Rio Grande
 And I wished that I could stay
 This side of the border
 Where they live the Texas way
 But I'll travel on
 A branded man
 In sorrow all my days