Blackie Dalton (unreleased) Lyrics - Roy Orbison

Blackie Dalton was a gun fighter 

They say that he was the fastest gun alive 

Before you could draw your gun from the holster 

You would surely die 

Blackie Dalton was a gun fighter 

He killed three men in abilone and four in Wichita 

He wounded one in Kansas City 

Let him live out of pity 

He was tired of killing them all 

Then one night in a brawl 

His brother John got killed in Wichita 

Defending his brother's name 

The Blackie Dalton fame had brought his brother shame 

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He got word in Tucson about his brother John 

They heard him say as he left that day 

"I've got to hunt him down 

Then I'll throw my gun away" 

Lonely night on the trail 

He'd listen to the coyotes wail 

And sympathise with the cry 

For one more man must die 

Blackie Dalton was a gun fighter 

The fastest gun alive is what they say 

He caught that man shot him down 

Turned and walked away 

Yes, he threw his gun away 

Blackie Dalton was a gun fighter 

But he turned his back on the life that he had led 

A man remembered from Kansas city 

Didn't have any pity 

He shot Blackie dead 

Yes he shot Blackie dead 

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Lonely nights on the trail 

The cowboys tell a different tale 

Blackie didn't really die 

No, Blackie didn't really die 

Blackie Dalton was a gun fighter 

The fastest gun alive is what they said 

He changed his name and in his grave 

The Kansas man instead 

With this marker at his head 

"Blackie Dalton was a gun fighter"