The Long Black Rifle Lyrics

Come closer my love and you′ll hear my tale
It'll make you cold, it′ll turn you pale
It's a tale of a man's never ending love
And a long black rifle

He wed a woman sworn to another
And in a rage the other man
Shot him down with a long black rifle
Shot him down and away he ran

A prairie man loved a city maid
Was the love he took worth the price he paid?
When a man ends up at the smoky end
Of a long black rifle

He wed a woman sworn to another
And in a rage the other man
Shot him down with a long black rifle
Shot him down and away he ran

His dying words I repeat to you
"You can never kill love when love is true
It lives when only the rust is left
Of a long black rifle"

He wed a woman sworn to another
And in a rage the other man
Shot him down with a long black rifle
Shot him down and away he ran
Shot him down and away he ran