Footsteps So Near

There's a tale they tell down in old Wolf County

Of a murderous husband and his family of three

One day a neighbor from over the hill

He found them dead in the cabin it was so deathly still



The killer he left a note and I know how it read

I hope you don't find me I'd rather be dead

Than to live in your jailhouse for the rest of my days

Until a jury it hangs me for my wicked ways



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Sometimes at night I wake to the sound

Of the men in the distance and the baying of hounds

Once on a full moon in the spring of the year

I heard breaking branches and footsteps so near



Well the posse it searched it was five days or more

He hid in a cave by the steep river shore

?Til he gave himself up he started walking downtown

Before he got to the courthouse a man shot him down



He said I'm not sorry for what I have done

But I cannot live like a man on the run

I'm glad that you killed me you can dig me my grave

It can't be much worse than that dark lonely cave



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