Hardin Wouldn't Run Lyrics - Johnny Cash

I know a man whose plow handle hand is quicker than a light 

Wes Hardin is his name they say he travels in the night 

For he might have to kill or walk around a fight 

And if you ever saw Wes Hardin draw you know he can skin his gun 

He won't say how many tried and died 

Up against the top hand up against the wrong man cause Hardin' wouldn't run 

He rode in like a Texas wind took the eastbound train 

Goin' goin' with Jane Bowen till the law men caught up 

So long Janie chin up I'll be back again 

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Off he went to Huntsville Prison so long Janie he cried 

Fifteen years she waited till her heart broke and she died 

And she left that bad land to wait up in the sky 

Free at last the payin' past for all the wrong he did 

First free air they let him breathe since he was a kid 

So let him come and let him go and let him deal and bid 

Near the border in El Paso Lawyer reads the sign 

You won't find him there for business every day at nine 

For business is real bad one client's all he's had in quite a long long time 

Then sheriff Selman's boy broke in to Wes's woman's place 

Up she jumped and pistol whipped him kicked him in the face 

And John Selman demands revenge for this disgrace 

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You could see every night by candlelight in Hardin's favorite bar 

She'd be hanging on his arm and very late they'd leave there 

Headed for the Goose Hair glad it wasn't far 

Right through the swinging doors John Selman came with a blazin' gun 

Wes Hardin chug-a-luggin' red eye got him in the back of the head 

John Wesley Hardin fell dead cos Hardin wouldn't run