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Sam BassSam Bass was born in Indiana, it was his native homeAnd at the age of seventeen, Sam began to roam Sam first came out to Texas a cowboy for to be A kinder-hearted fellow you seldom ever see Sam used to deal in race stock, one called the Denton mare He matched her in scrub races and took her to the fair I used to coin the money and spent it just as free He always drank good whiskey wherever he might be Sam left the Collins ranch in the merry month of May With a herd of Texas cattle the Black Hills for to see Sold out in Custer City and then got on a spree A harder set of cowboys you seldom ever see On their way back to Texas they robbed the U.P. train And then split up in couples and started out again Joe Collins and his partner were overtaken soon With all their hard-earned money they had to meet their doom Sam had four companions-four bold and daring lads They were Richardson, Jackson, Joe Collins, and Old Dad Four more bold and daring cowboys the rangers never knew They whipped the Texas Rangers and ran the boys in blue Jim Murphy was arrested and then released on bail He jumped his bond at Tyler and then took the train for Terrell But Mayor Jones had posted Jim and that was all a stall 'Twas was only a plan to capture Sam before the coming fall Sam met his fate at Round Rock, July the twenty-first They pierced poor Sam with rifle balls and emptied out his purse Poor Sam he is a corpse and six foot under clay And Jackson's in the bushes trying to get away Jim bad borrowed Sam's good gold and didn't want to pay The only shot he saw was to give poor Sam away He sold out Sam and Barnes and left their friends to mourn Oh, what a scorching Jim will get when Gabriel blows his horn And so he sold out Sam and Barnes and left their friends to mourn Oh, what a scorching Jim will get when Gabriel blows his horn Perhaps he's got to heaven, there's none of us can say But if I'm right in my surmise he's gone the other way |