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tom paxton lyrics chords::I never was one for shaking, but i found it hard to stand, with a sixinch blade held right between my eyes.
We could hear a siren blowing, somebody yelled in pain, then it got so quiet, you could hear a bird walk by.
See, they highjack a plane in the dessert, and the government screamed and cries, but to save some lives, they open up a prison cell.
I knew they were talking to someone, i knew they were willing to try, so i figured my freedom was a matter of a day or two more.
Then, jesus, early this morning, the whirlybird dropped the gas, it made me puke and it brought me to my knees.
The bullets came like hailstones, i heard the first ones pass, then they cut down willie, and they got jim kelly and me, oh, they cut down willie, and they got jim kelly and me.
They come in yelling curses, like they was crossing the river rhine, shot down every goddamned thing they saw.
And while i lay they wounded, i took another one in my spine, and poor jim kelly took another one in his jaw, oh, poor jim kelly took another one in his jaw.
They say we had our throats cut by a band of desperate men, say they saved just as many of us as they could.
Yeah, let them take the governor, hold him for a couple of days, see who goes in shooting to set him free.