- I am
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- I am Crazy Horse in Montana
charging down the hill
- to ride into the history books,
never to be still.
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- I am Wyatt Earp starin' down
McLaury in the street
- just before the shootout in the
Arizona heat.
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- I am Jesse Chisolm blazing a trail
that drovers use
- thinking of the friends I have,
that ride the old cayuse
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- I am Joaquin Murrietta racing with
the moon
- as a song is sung about me in an
"end of trail" saloon.
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- I am William Bonney during the
Lincoln County war
- getting a picture taken that will
endure for evermore.
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- I am Jesse James in Northfield
when everything goes bust
- like a fortyniner comin' home
without a bag of dust.
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- I am Judge Isaac Parker sending
out my deputies
- to bring to trial the bad, so good
folks have some peace.
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- I am Isom Dart up north, having a
picture taken of me
- wearing a suit and pistol like a
cowboy on a spree.
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- I am William F. Cody as I show the
wild west
- mixing fact and fiction but giving
it my best.
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- I am Charlie Russell painting
cowboys on the prod
- hoping that my work, from them
will get a nod.
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- I am all the cowboys lost to
time
- but found again in someone's
rhyme
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