Album: other songs

The Ballad Of Wild Bill Hickock

*****the refrence to the year of sixty nine is really the year of eighteen sixty nine, as in the ballad of davy crocket this song has lots more verses in it but i dont have them this is all that was put on the record. some of these styles of songs went on for ten minutes and were life historys of the subjects.*****

Wild Bill Hickock a name they wont forget
though he lived a hundred years ago
they talk about him yet
he fought for law and order
and his shootin was the best
and he ranked among the bravest
in the early wild west........

born in the state of illinois
he loved to hunt when he was a boy
and learned to shoot a pistol straight and true
then he went out kansas way
where he drove a stage to santa fe
and always brought the mail safely through....

Wild Bill Hickock a name they wont forget
though he lived a hundred years ago
they talk about him yet
he fought for law and order
and his shootin was the best
and he ranked among the bravest
in the early wild west........

(instrumental of verse and chours)

came the civil war he journied forth
to serve the army of the north
in the very dangours job of scout and spy
he was captured many times
but he'd manage to escape again
cause he figured it was not his time to die...

Wild Bill Hickock a name they wont forget
though he lived a hundred years ago
they talk about him yet
he fought for law and order
and his shootin was the best
and he ranked among the bravest
in the early wild west........

When general custer needed aid
to fight the indian brgaide
when fourty he took his pistol in his hand
the army forts he help defend
until the fighting came to an end
and peace once more existed in our land...

Wild Bill Hickock a name they wont forget
though he lived a hundred years ago
they talk about him yet
he fought for law and order
and his shootin was the best
and he ranked among the bravest
in the early wild west........

then in sixty nine he headed back to
kansas with his horse and pack
to become the U.S. Marshal at abilene
with his fearless heart and his trusty gun
he kept the outlaws on the run
and his justice was the fairest ever seen

(instrumental of chours)

Wild Bill Hickock a name they wont forget
though he lived a hundred years ago
they talk about him yet
he fought for law and order
and his shootin was the best
and he ranked among the bravest
in the early wild west........


Wild Bill Hickock the bravest
in the early wild west........