The ragged kid nobody wanted
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Left alone to ramble wild
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Long ago he was abandoned
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Nobody's child
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Never smiles and never chatters
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Never quarrels or complains
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Grown as hard as the Sierras
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And the Western Plains
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Come a'cow cow yicky yicky yea
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A'come a'cow cow yicky yicky yea
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Learned to swing a broken bottle
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Learned to use his fists and knife
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In the bar rooms and bordellos
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Of his life
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He drifted down towards the borders
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The sky was dark but it did not rain
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Came the meanest pistoleros
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In the Western Plains
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He fell in with these desperadoes
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Thieves and killers every one
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Prizes hanging from their saddles
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With their guns
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Come a'cow cow yicky yicky yea
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A'come a'cow cow yicky yicky yea
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The ragged kid nobody wanted
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Left alone to ramble wild
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Now he rides beside the Devil
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Nobody's child
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Come a'cow cow yicky yicky yea
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A'come a'cow cow yicky yicky yea
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