The Day That Curly Billy Shot Down Crazy Sam McGee (2003 Digital Remaster) - The Hollies

Big tall man standing in the street

Gun hanging by his side

Just one man that he'd like to meet

That's when I began to hide

I recognized him from the face of his son

The hate in his eye didn't lie

Oh what I did can't be undone

Borrowed time there's none to buy

Well I hid round the back of a derelict shack

Ain't looking for a mad showdown

But he was smart, he'd already checked

A week in advance I'd paid down

Well the hotel clerk was a fun-loving man

The job he had it didn't pay

He told all about what happened that night

There he is, that's the one's all he'd say

Well all the people were running, jumping, even thumping

on my bad neighbours doors

crying Curly Billy Silly with his colt he calls filly

Let me in I gotta hide

Well everybody was crying, sighing Sam McGee's dying

No one to protect our town

Curly Billy Silly with his colt he calls filly

he's gonna shoot your sheriff down

Big tall man standing in the street

now a hand hovering waiting to slide

Drew out his gun it wasn't for fun

Let me in there's nowhere to hide

Well I made my play but it wasn't my day

I felt the ripping lead

That's when I knew my time was through

Rest in peace were the last words he said

Well all the people were running, jumping, even thumping

on my bad neighbours doors

crying Curly Billy Silly with his colt he calls filly

Let me in I gotta hide

Well everybody was crying, sighing Sam McGee's dying

No one to protect our town

Curly Billy Silly with his colt he calls filly

he's gonna shoot your sheriff down

Well all the people were running, jumping, even thumping

on my bad neighbours doors

crying Curly Billy Silly with his colt he calls filly

Let me in I gotta hide

Well everybody was crying, sighing Sam McGee's dying

No one to protect our town

Curly Billy Silly with his colt he calls filly

he's gonna shoot your sheriff down