Jason Romero

Ballad Of Old Bill


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Old William said, many years ago
I won't live a usual life
Oh no, I won't wear the union suit
And no one will be my wife
But I will find love near and far, wherever I may go
And I'll bring roses and lilies to their doors
And have a son I don't know

It's a wicked world when you're all alone
It's a wicked and mean old place
Take your saddle and horse and ride away

There's followers and leaders and battle weary heroes
And I am none of them
When I arrived I might have been a drinker
But I was longing for a friend
I'm a rider, ranging these far out hills, lonely and so wild
So wild, I've lived for free, and out here I will die

It's a wicked world when you're all alone
It's a wicked and mean old place
Take your saddle and horse and ride away

I'll be dead the next few years, not in some old home
Out alone on the back of old Dan
And I hope for a quick blow
And the one son I leave behind, he will find no will
I believe in the natural way of man
Oh kill or he be killed

It's a wicked world when you're all alone
It's a wicked and mean old place
Take your saddle and horse and ride away
Take your saddle and horse and ride away
Take your saddle and horse and ride away


Writer/s: Jason Romero, Pharis Romero