[ Featuring The Del McCoury Band ]
We're seeking information
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About a man who's living here
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His name is Henry Walker
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Now don't you fret and fear
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His crime is cold blood murder
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He's wanted by the law
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We'll take him back to face his crime
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It's the worst you ever saw
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Well we know Henry Walker
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He lives way back in the woods
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Where he hunts and traps and fishes
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And his living ain't too good
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But if you aim to catch him
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You better learn his hunting ground
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He'll hide just like an old white hare
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And you know he can't be found
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CHORUS:
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Yes the cold was splitting timber
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With a crack like a 44
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And the wind was whistling through the lonesome pines
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It bit right through my parka
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And froze me to the core
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As the wolves were howling on the timberline
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We reached ol' Henry's cabin
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By noon of second day
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He must have heard us coming
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For he up and he ran away
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We camped by the rocky rapids
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While the moon was shining bright
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We heard ol' Henry laughing
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Way out in the night
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We tracked him for a week or more
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Through the swamp and through the hills
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Till a rifle roared I cried "My God
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My partner has been killed"
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I propped him by an ol' jack pine
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And swore a solemn vow
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"Lookout Henry Walker
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It's you and me right now"
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So then I started thinking
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He could not be found
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Then one day by a frozen lake
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Like a fox he went to ground
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And he tried to run
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But the ice was thin
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And he fell on through
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I watched him as he sank and swore
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"I'll put a curse on you"
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I dragged my frozen partner
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Through the ice and through the snow
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I lost three fingers and a toe
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To the frostbite don't you know
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Though the years have come, the years have gone
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I think about those times
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When Northern lights are dancing
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It makes me feel like crying
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Chorus:
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As the wolves were howling on the timberline
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As the wolves were howling on the timberline
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