Tall Handsome Stranger Lyrics - Marty Robbins

A tall handsome stranger rode into town 

With fire in his eyes burning red as sundown 

His boots were all dusty, his coat open wide 

Six ways of dying hung low on his side 

He went in the town hall asking for me 

They told him that I was still town deputy 

I sent him to prison to pay for his crime 

He killed a guard on the Sante Fe line 

He spread word around town that my time had come 

My notch was already carved on his gun 

He's laughing and braggin and having his fun 

It's all a show for he knows I won't run 

That night in silence the town was asleep 

I sat by my window and looked down the street 

I wished in my heart that he would just ride away 

I hated to face him next sunup that day 

I met him at sunup, the crowd gathered round 

Waitin and watching for one to go down 

He grabbed for his six gun, tryin his best 

He cursed as my bullet went deep in his chest 

He stood there a moment and looked all around 

Slowly and lifeless he fell to the ground 

The stranger's my brother, born an outlaw 

He must have forgotton I taught him to draw 

The whole town was waiting and I was alone 

The blood that I spilled was just like my own 

When she hears this story, how Mother will cry 

Brother 'gainst brother and one had to die 

To die 

To die