Ballad of Boot Hill Lyrics

The song Ballad of Boot Hill is performed by Johnny Cash in the album named Sings Ballads of True West in the year 2009 .



Here lies less more four slugs from a forty-four no less no more

Out in Arizona just south of Tucson
Where tumbleweeds tumble in search of a home
There's a town they call Tombstone where the brave never cry
They live by a sixgun by a sixgun they die

It's been a long time now since the town was a boom
The jailhouse is empty so's the Palace Saloon
Just one look will tell you that this town was real
A secluded old dirt road leads up to Boot Hill

Walk up to the fence there and look at the view
That's where they were hanging eighteen eighty two
It's easy to see where the brave men have died
Rope marks on the oak tree are now petrified

At night when the moon shines so far away
It gets mighty lonesome lookin' down on their graves
There lies Billy Clanton never wanted to kill
But he's there with the guilty way up on Boot Hill (Boot Hill)




Johnny Cash - Sings Ballads of True West

Apr 2009

  1. Hiawatha's Vision
  2. Road to Kaintuck
  3. The Shifting, Whispering Sands Part I
  4. Ballad of Boot Hill
  5. I Ride An Old Paint
  6. Hardin Wouldn't Run
  7. Mr. Garfield
  8. Streets Of Laredo
  9. Johnny Reb
  10. A Letter From Home
  11. Bury Me Not On The Lone Prairie
  12. Mean As Hell
  13. Sam Hall
  14. 25 Minutes to Go
  15. Blizzard
  16. Sweet Betsy From Pike
  17. Green Grow The Lilacs
  18. Stampede
  19. The Shifting, Whispering Sands Part II
  20. Reflections


Ballad of Boot Hill