Don't Take Your Guns to Town Lyrics

The song Don't Take Your Guns to Town is performed by Johnny Cash in the album named Greatest Hits in the year 2001 .



A young cowboy named Billy Joe grew restless on the farm
A boy filled with wonderlust who really meant no harm
He changed his clothes and shined his boots
And combed his dark hair down
And his mother cried as he walked out

[Chorus]
Don't take your guns to town son
Leave your guns at home Bill
Don't take your guns to town

He laughed and kissed his mom
And said your Billy Joe's a man
I can shoot as quick and straight as anybody can
But I wouldn't shoot without a cause
I'd gun nobody down
But she cried again as he rode away

[Chorus]
Don't take your guns to town son
Leave your guns at home Bill
Don't take your guns to town

He sang a song as on he rode
His guns hung at his hips
He rode into a cattle town
A smile upon his lips
He stopped and walked into a bar
And laid his money down
But his mother's words echoed again

[Chorus]
Don't take your guns to town son
Leave your guns at home Bill
Don't take your guns to town

He drank his first strong liquor then to calm his shaking hand
And tried to tell himself he had become a man
A dusty cowpoke at his side began to laugh him down
And he heard again his mothers words

[Chorus]
Don't take your guns to town son
Leave your guns at home Bill
Don't take your guns to town

Filled with rage then
Billy Joe reached for his gun to draw
But the stranger drew his gun and fired
Before he even saw
As Billy Joe fell to the floor
The crowd all gathered 'round
And wondered at his final words

[Chorus]
Don't take your guns to town son
Leave your guns at home Bill
Don't take your guns to town




Johnny Cash - Greatest Hits

Nov 2001

  1. I Walk the Line
  2. Big River
  3. Don't Take Your Guns to Town
  4. I Got Stripes
  5. Five Feet High and Rising
  6. Tennessee Flat
  7. Bonanza
  8. Ring of Fire
  9. Understand Your Man
  10. It Ain't Me Babe
  11. Orange Blossom Special
  12. One on the Right Is on the Left
  13. Riders in the Sky
  14. Jackson
  15. Boy Named Sue
  16. Daddy Sang Bass
  17. If I Were a Carpenter
  18. What Is Truth
  19. Flesh and Blood
  20. Wanted Man
  21. Man in Black
  22. Thing Called Love
  23. Kate
  24. One Piece at a Time
  25. Highway Patrolman
  26. Johnny 99


Don't Take Your Guns to Town