Pride And The Badge Lyrics - All Around Cowboy/everything I've Always Wanted - Marty Robbins

All night long I tried to sleep but sleep refused to come 

Cause today I knew I'd either have to fight or run 

Knowin' if I choose to run my mind would never rest 

Cause with so much pride I wear this badge upon my vest 

Folks are filled with fear because there's three bad guns in town 

Sheriff Olsen made the wrong move and they shot him down 

One they called Dakota Jack and one El Paso Red 

The other just turned twenty and he's called the Killer Kid 

Good advice I get and that's to leave and run away 

But my pride and badge I wear won't let me live this way 

And if I stay the three have bragged they'll add me to their list 

But I have a different aim and I don't aim to miss 

From the doorway where I stand I see the outlaws three 

Worried none because they know the town's not helpin' me 

From a hundred yards away I try a lucky shot 

Luck is with me and Dakota Jack dies on the spot 

Well a kid runs through the barroom door and Red goes up the stairs 

The Kid is ragin' mad, he's breakin' bottles, kickin' chairs 

And from a roof El Paso Red has vowed to pay me back 

As he views the lifeless body of Dakota Jack 

I can see him as he jumps from one roof to the next 

Searchin' for me but he has no idea where I'm at 

But I watch his every move I'm ready when he leaps 

As I shoot him in mid air he crashes to the street 

Now there's one against just one I've evened up the score 

Down the street I hear a yell come through the barroom door 

The Kid has screamed, there's no way I can live unless I run 

Said there ain't no lawdog man enough to take his gun 

Through the barroom door he walks and steps out on the street 

I can't match his draw, he's much too fast for me to beat 

And as I walk toward him we both grab a forty-five 

Maybe I will die today and he will stay alive 

Like a hammer somethin' hits me spinnin' me around 

As I fall I shoot him twice before he hits the ground 

His bullet missed me , still I feel a burnin' in my chest 

His bullet hits the badge I wear with pride upon my vest 

As the people view the bodies of the lifeless three 

From their looks I know exactly what they think of me 

To them I'm just a killer and they could not care less 

'Bout my pride or 'bout the badge I wear upon my vest