The Goodnight-loving Lyrics - Black Clint

Ridin' against the wind in east New Mexico 

His skin is dry and worn as the Texas plains 

He's headed where the air is thinand the cold blue northers blow 

Up throw the raton pass but he'll have to beat the early snow. 

The winter of '64 was a great many years ago 

When a young man went away for the rebel cause 

And he was branded by the war and the only life he'd know 

Was lookin' over his shoulder saddle bound and layin' low. 

Now there's a man on the Goodnight-Loving 

Like too many other men out on the trail 

Who found the hard way when the pushing comes to shoving 

He'd go six feet under before he'd go to jail. 

Now there's a place just north of here where they say the outlaws go 

Where a man can leave his name and past behind 

And every now and then you'll hear he's gone the way of the buffalo 

And that he finally made the pass but he didn't beat the early snow. 

Now there's a man on the Goodnight-Loving 

Like too many other men out on the trail 

Who found the hard way when the pushing comes to shoving 

He'd go six feet under before he'd go to jail. 

He'd go six feet under before he'd go to jail...