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Artist/Band: Hank Snow
Lyrics for Song: My Friends
Lyrics for Album: The Singing Ranger, Vol. 3 [Bear Family (Germany)] [1994]



(Robert W. Service)



The man above was a murderer

The man below was a thief

And I lay there in the bunk

Between ailing beyond belief

A weary armful of skin and bone

Wasted with pain and grief.



My feet were froze and the lifeless toes

Were purple and green and gray

The little flesh that clung to my bones

You could punch it in holes like clay

The skin on my gums was a sullen black

And slowly peeling away.



I was sure enough in a direful fix

And often I wondered why

They did not take the chance that was left

And leave me alone to die

Or finish me off with a dose of dope

So utterly lost was I.



But no they brewed me the green-spruce tea

And nursed me there like a child

And the homicide he was good to me

And bathed my sores and smiled

And the thief he starved that I might be fed

And his eyes were kind and mild.



Yet they were woefully wicked men

And often at night in pain

I heard the murderer speak of his deed

And dream it over again

I heard the poor thief sorrowing for

The dead self he had slain.



I'll never forget that bitter dawn

So evil askew and gray

When they wrapped me round in the skins of beasts

And bore me to a sleigh

And we started out with the nearest post

A hundred miles away.



I'll never forget the trail they broke

With its tense unuttered woe

And the crunch, crunch, crunch as their snowshoes sank

Through the crust of the hollow snow

And my breath would fail and every beat

Of my heart was like a blow.



And often times I would die the death

Yet wake up to life anew

The sun would be all ablaze on the waste

And the sky a blighting blue

And the tears would rise in my snow-blind eyes

And furrow my cheeks like dew.



And the camps we made when their strength outplayed

And the day was pinched and wan

And oh the joy of the blessed halt

And I did dread the dawn

And how I hated the weary men

Who rose and dragged me on.



And oh how I begged to rest to rest

The snow was so sweet a shroud

And oh how I cried when they urged me on

Cried and cursed them aloud

Yet on they strained all racked and pained

And sorely their backs were bowed.



And then it was all like a lurid dream

And I prayed for a swift release

From the ruthless ones who would not

Leave me to die alone in peace

Till I waked up and I found myself at the post

Of the Mounted Police.



And there was my friend the murderer

And there was my friend the thief

With bracelets of steel around their wrists

And wicked beyond belief

But when they come to God's judgment seat

May I be allowed the brief...


Album Lyrics: The Singing Ranger, Vol. 3 [Bear Family (Germany)] [1994]


Hank Snow
"The Singing Ranger, Vol. 3 [Bear Family (Germany)] [1994]"


1. I Love You Because
2. I Care No More
3. Fraulein
4. Return to Me
5. Mansion on the Hill
6. Limbo Rock
7. Tammy
8. Wheels
9. Tiptoeing
10. Poison Love
11. Hold Me Tight
12. I Saw the Light
13. Difficult
14. Little Stranger (In a Manger)
15. Christmas Roses
16. Silent Night
17. C-h-r-i-s-t-m-a-s
18. White Christmas
19. Frosty the Snowman
20. God Is My Santa Claus
21. I Ain't Been Anywhere
22. Rome Wasn't Built in a Day
23. Invisible Hands
24. Sweet Hour of Prayer
25. Jesus Wept
26. These Things Shall Pass
27. His Hands
28. Farther Along
29. Gloryland March
30. I Saw a Man
31. This Train
32. I See Jesus
33. Shopworn
34. I'm Glad I'm on the Inside Looking Out
35. I'll Go Marching Into Glory
36. How Big Is God
37. Lord's Way of Saying Goodnight
38. Promised to John
39. My Adobe Hacienda
40. No Letter Today
41. I Dreamed of An Old Love Affair
42. For Sale
43. Rose of Old Monterey
44. Moonlight and Skies
45. You and My Old Guitar
46. Down the Old Road to Home
47. I'm Sorry We Met
48. Teardrops in My Heart
49. Ridin' Home
50. Heartbreak Trail
51. Cool Water
52. Tumbling Tumbleweeds
53. At the Rainbow's End
54. Chant of the Wanderer
55. On the Rhythm Range
56. Following the Sun All Day
57. Blue Side of Lonesome
58. Green, Green Grass of Home
59. Once More You're Mine Again
60. There Goes My Everything
61. All the Time
62. It Kinda Reminds Me of Me
63. Blue, Blue Day
64. He Dropped the World in My Hands
65. Call of the Wild
66. There's a Star Spangled Banner Waving Somewhere
67. You're the Reason
68. It's a Little More Like Heaven
69. Galway Bay
70. Lili Marlene
71. Geisha Girl
72. Melba from Melbourne
73. Cuba Rhumba
74. Queen of Draw Poker Club
75. Now Is the Hour
76. In the Misty Moonlight
77. From a Jack to a King
78. She Wears My Ring
79. Mary Ann Regrets
80. White Silver Sands
81. Lonesome 7-7203
82. Gonna Find Me a Bluebird
83. Sweet Lies
84. Handcuffed to Love
85. Bummin' Around
86. I've Cried a Mile
87. You Take the Future (And I'll Take the Past)
88. Flying South
89. Miami Snow
90. At the First Fall of Snow
91. You're as Welcome as the Flowers in May
92. January
93. Springtime in the Rockies
94. Roses in the Snow
95. Beyond the Reef
96. Trade Winds
97. Don't Sing Aloha When I Go
98. Oahu Rose
99. The Wayward Wind
100. Walking the Last Mile
101. Old Rover
102. Put Your Arms Around Me
103. Little Joe
104. Cross the Brazos at Waco
105. Nuevo Laredo
106. Adios Amigo
107. Maria Elena
108. Senorita Rosalita
109. Dangerous Dan McGrew
110. Ballad of One Eyed Mike
111. My Friends
112. I Wish My Heart Could Talk
113. Wreck of the Old '97
114. Crazy Little Train of Love
115. Blue Yodel, No. 10
116. Father Time and Mother Love
117. Rockin' Rollin' Ocean [With Wave Effect]
118. Rockin' Rollin' Ocean [Without Wave Effect]
119. Casey's Washerwoman Boogie [Instrumental]
120. Hawaiian Sunset [Instrumental]
121. The Man Who Robbed the Bank at Santa Fe
122. The Texas Plains
123. Patanio (The Pride of the Plains)
124. A Legend in My Time
125. A Petal from a Faded Rose
126. The Change of the Tide
127. Mockin' Bird Hill
127. If It's Wrong to Love You
127. The Blue Canadian Rockies
127. Sonny Boy [Instrumental]
127. Unchained Melody [Instrumental]
127. Beautiful Dreamer [Instrumental]
127. Brahms' Lullaby [Instrumental]
127. Blue Tango [Instrumental]
127. Dark Moon [Instrumental]
127. I Can't Stop Loving You [Instrumental]
127. The Convict and the Rose [Instrumental]
127. The Waltz You Saved for Me
127. Lay My Head Beneath a Rose [Instrumental]
127. Whispering Hope [Instrumental]
127. Sentimental Journey [Instrumental]
127. Am I Losing You? [Instrumental]
127. I Get the Blues When It Rains [Instrumental]
127. Sweet Marie [Instrumental]
127. Birth of the Blues [Instrumental]
127. The Christmas Cannonball
127. A Letter to Santa Claus
127. The Face on the Barroom Floor
127. The Cremation of Sam McGee
127. The Spell of the Yukon
127. The Ballad of Blasphemous Bill
127. The Last Mile of the Way
127. Dear Lord, Remember Me
127. The Runt
127. The Prisoner's Dream
127. Mother I Thank You (For the Bible You Gave)
127. Rocking Alone in an Old Rocking Chair
127. To You Sweetheart, Aloha
127. My Little Grass Shack in Kealakekua, Hawaii
127. On the Beach in Waikiki
127. Pearly Shells
127. The Whispering Tradewinds [Instrumental]
127. Among My Souvenirs [Instrumental]
127. The Seasons
127. All Nite Cafe
127. The Tip of My Fingers
127. A Wound Time Can't Erase
127. The Name of the Game Was Love