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Two Rode Together

from The New West by Bill White

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The sleet has turned to rain, but the cold winds still blow
As I ride these broken trails alone
My better days have passed into folklore
Nobody's driving cattle any more
But I remember when you and I crossed the Missouri
On step ahead of the thunder's ranging fury
Until we fell into the canyons and slept inside the rain
Running like horses across the fields and plains

Two rode together across the broken ground
Then came the day they faced each other as the sun went down

In the night we crossed the river to share whiskey and smokes
but in the morning we went back to fight with our own folks
we lost the mississippi to the union troops
who ran off with all our cattle and blocked the escape routes
when the war was over they hung the traitors on both sides
friends became the enemies of the friends whose friends had died

Witnessing the rising of horses with iron feet
The two who rode together faced each other in the street

its a sorry day in when the best of friends
Are on opposite sides of the law
waiting for the broken rays of sunset
to prove who is the faster on the draw
once two rode together
Oh the stories the people will tell
how one of them rode into heaven
and the other rides into hell

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from The New West, released July 4, 2018
written and performed by Bill White

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