We heard a hawk cry out in the night
"It ain't too damn likely she'll beat me to the draw", Oh yeah
You know the reason I'm the only man here to tell it
To celebrate the robbing of the train
Now, Eli, he's our fastest gunner
We were talking kind of low and lazy
She said, "Raven" and she looked away
He's kind of mean and young from the South
And you know that's a signal from young Billy, who's our sentry
You'd better get your twelve gauge or shut your mouth and ass now”
You know she said, “She'd come to take young Billy home”
And Eli said, "Let's take her back to the cabin"
You know we hadn't been back home two hours
I must be the sorriest sight you ever saw
Two minutes flat we had found her an Indian girl all alone
And probably me too, yeah”, the Indian girl said, "Go ahead now do it"
Now Eli and the Duke they got down to it
Stumbled out of our home
Right then I didn't trust her, no and I said so, oh no
I said, "Stop it", and she bit my thumb nearly clean through
He said, "What's your name, sweet little Indian girl?"
I heard the Duke, he's our dynamiter, say
About not having to go out soon again, oh yeah
Now I'm dying here in Albuquerque
Eli said, “He'd kill young Billy he'd kill the Duke
And I [Incomprehensible]
You know I'm crazy but I ain't real dumb, oh no
I laid down on the floor and played real good possum
He said, "Fat Albert, you're getting kind of old and weird now"
So we quick grabbed some of our hardware
And when they finally started to break down the door
He's saying something here ain't exactly right, oh
We were walking back through the darkness
We were riding back to have ourselves a party
I said, "You don't know she might be the law, yeah"
They each wanted the Indian girl for their own
But when they finally got around to asking her
I smeared my face up with blood from my thumb, yeah
He said, smiling kind of nasty
