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His name was Trigger Luke & he had the fastest draw

He'd killed three sheriffs he lived by his own law

1 Day after game of cards & the whisky poured hot

A woman waited for trigger upstairs in a cot

He and the bartender her price but tempers

began to fly

Another claimed an earlier payment

And he was shot down on the pavement

Not dead but never to be a man again

If what I'm saying you can understand

& Trigger quietly walked away

He stayed with the woman for three days

He left town & no one saw him months on end

Rumors filtered in that he's been changed

I heard he crossed paths with a travelin preacher

Trigger drew his gun but the man had

reached him

I heard he lay down his gun

Smashed his bottle on the ground

I heard he cried that day

I can't believe what I've heard said

He won't ever touch another woman

& He was beaten by a man

& He's coming back to town

& 5 men want to gun him down

I woke up late to se exactly what had passed

I saw Luke lying dead of a shotgun blast

I heard Luke rode in at the crack of dawn

As enemies confronted him with their guns drawn

They said they wanted a fight

To pay him back for their lost rights

Luke just asked to forgive him

He said he had a new life to give them

"Long ago I was lost"

His next words were drowned

By the shots

Someone heard his last breaths

He said "Lord forgive them"