The Kid-Ben Nichols

[00:14.31]Your mother died night you were born [00:19.60]Her name you never knew [00:23.08]Look away, Look away [00:26.51]Nothing to lose [00:30.74]Left East Tennessee at fourteen [00:34.84]Wandered to the West [00:38.33]Look away, Look away [00:41.66]Born into death [00:45.80]You fought the sailors in New Orleans [00:52.58]You worked the flatboats and walked the streets [01:01.04]Hit Nacogdoches in '49 [01:08.62]And there we met for the very first time [01:40.48]Signed on with a stone mad captain [01:44.82]Rode on Mexico [01:48.02]Look away, Look away [01:51.65]War behold [01:56.04]Jailed with killers one and all [01:59.82]But we were killers free [02:03.41]Look away, Look away [02:06.85]Look to me [02:11.09]You saw the lancers 'mid heathen hordes [02:18.02]Bloodstained veils and costumes of war [02:26.08]Hell ain't half full boy hear me [02:33.35]War is the game and the god we seek [02:42.87][01:16.04]Kid don't you know me? [02:46.11][01:20.76]We are the last of the true [02:49.84][01:24.29]Drink up! Drink up! [02:53.97][01:29.08]Drink up! Drink up! [02:58.35][01:33.37]Cause tonight your soul's required of you [03:30.03]We set out as men of reason [03:33.68]Armed with Navy Colts [03:37.32]Look away, Look away [03:41.06]Work paid in gold [03:44.40]But you stood witness to yourself [03:48.99]Our trial you did betray [03:52.53]Look away, Look away [03:56.32]To judgment day [04:00.55]We killed in the desert we killed in the streets [04:07.34]We chose what shall and shall not be [04:15.28]We stood with pistols, fought back to back [04:23.27]Now you've stood your ground but what ground is that? [04:55.33][04:31.18]Kid don't you know me? [04:57.91][04:36.45]We are the last of the true [05:02.82][04:39.25]Drink up! Drink up! [05:06.35][04:42.14]Drink up! Drink up! [05:10.88][04:46.71]Cause tonight your soul's required of you