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Maybe on Another One
Words by Douglas Heyes Jr. Explore this song from the Douglas Heyes Jr. collection.
Original Doug Heyes lyrics · AI-generated music & vocals
A narrator assuming the identity of Doc Holliday moves through gunfights, outlaw names and lives that seem to repeat across time. Boasts about survival sit beside reluctance to kill and the knowledge that death keeps following. Spiritual language and a promise of reunion push against the violent story he cannot leave behind.
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Maybe on Another One
Words by Douglas Heyes Jr
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Maybe on another one Maybe on another one Fire Glow and midnight Sun 10 more lifetimes on the run I guess I get another one. Maybe on another one here and now the Rising Sun live by the sword die by the gun I never wanted to kill anyone I live to serve the sacred word doesn’t matter what you’ve heard if I’m a stranger then you are a friend bitter winds better ends more like you than you may know a traveler bound for Jericho braided hair and burning feet while the village is asleep I came here from long ago What year that was I sure don’t know in between a teenage dream and a Roadhouse down in Abilene I was barely 17 in love with a beauty queen when the sheriff came around and force my hand to a showdown They called me Doc Holliday 7 outlaws in my way Steel and Stone bloody bones Live too free and die alone Tomorrow when you’ve come and gone One more hard-line country song All the cards you took along Jokers gunning, all long gone If you hear me, sing along Something so right can’t be wrong After midnight it all comes down Clanton boys ride into town High noon at OK Corral Another Sunday bacchanal Shootout in the noonday Sun Put those killers in the ground Then almost without a sound Cries and whispers all around Coming up from underground When at last the smoke did clear Time we best get out of here Dodge saloon to have a beer Trigger fingers, raging fear That's the way it all came down When the devil came to town All too many souls to save Seven outlaws in the grave Walked away, off down Main Street Killer hungry need to eat Blistered hands and burning feet Secrets kept; so indiscreet Seven horses seven men Death can be your own best friend Waits for you around the bend Maybe on another one Some bright sunshiny day Where the folks can laugh and sing Let the children play Sadly though it's not to be At least not for today Seven dead men dragged away Nobody came out to pray If you hear my name again I'm Doc Holliday Fastest gun of anyone That ever came to play Dealing lead till you are dead If you dare get in my way I'll put you down into the ground And there you're going to stay One more thing that you should know back on the road to Jericho blood turning to cherry wine salvation in the nick of time but just like sand and blood and Steel bony hand upon your back Waits for You just down the track Maybe on another one another lonely day when all the ghosts and fandoms seem to vanish in the gray and you and I must say goodbye before our dying day I promise to find you again when the devil gets in the way Now there ain't no turning back No safety in a railroad shack Freight train coming down the track Your future in a mail sack Come on children, gather round Listen up, don't make a sound Listen, look, see everything If you do, then you'll come through Glory to the newborn king
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