Spirit Boy

There's a little girl down south

And her daddy's got a ranch

'Bout as big as my town

And one day I swear

I'm gonna go down there and get her out

From the letter that I got last fall

She said "you know you're the one I love most of all"

But my face is up on the sheriff's wall

And there's reward signs posted up

And down the red river line

That I cross that every night

Trying to find my heart and looking for a fight

And there were four guards standing on the wall

I drew two six-guns

And I watched them fall

Oh yeah, yeah



Well I came busting through them gates

Into a 12 gauge and a 38

But I was quick on the draw and I got 'em all

Yelled out to Rosa Bella

As she came walking softly through the night

Her hair so long and looking at me

With those big blue eyes

I grabbed her hand and we ran to leave

But her daddy came a-running from around a tree

And said "Ain't no way my daughter's leaving here with no Cherokee"

Oh yeah, well, in my rage and to his surprise

I looked him deep in his buck-shot eyes

And he had his hand on his gun but I was holding mine



And I'm running down this Indian highway

In a ball of red

I got a loaded gun and things are goin' my way for a change

Well, you might think that I'm gonna be swingin' from a tree

Oh, no I'm a spirit boy

Ain't nobody gonna catch me

No, yeah, yeah, yeah...



We made love that very night

Under a burnt auburn Cancun sky

I guess now I'm a Mexican

'Cause in Texas I'm a wanted man

She got up in an all-white gown

From the man who shot her daddy down

Somewhere in the heat of the night there was a shot



And I'm running down this Indian highway

In a ball of red

I got a loaded gun and things are goin' my way for a change, yeah

Well, you might think that I'm gonna be swingin' from a tree

I know I'm a spirit boy

Ain't nobody gonna catch me

Yeah, I'm a spirit boy

Ain't nobody gonna catch me

Yeah, I'm a spirit boy

Yeah, ain't nobody gonna catch me, yeah