The Facts Were Thin (Remix)

(Title: The Facts Were Thin) Verse 1 He was no master of the six-gun art The way the pictures later made him stand Just a boy without a mother, dropped by chance Into a range war’s bloody, borrowed land Verse 2 He learned the rifle only cause it paid Stole cattle when the shooting spent its men Broke the jail twice on a thief’s quick luck And died before the dying made him then Chorus The facts were thin, the country was too wide A smiling kid who never aged would do So legend took the orphan, packed the holes And left a killer young America knew Verse 3 No Hollywood draw, no last-stand speech Just dust and aliases and borrowed names A wiry ghost who never got the years To turn the killing into something else Chorus The facts were thin, the country was too wide A smiling kid who never aged would do So legend took the orphan, packed the holes And left a killer young America knew Outro (soft, half-spoken) The facts were thin… The country was too wide…