"Colt 44" lyrics

[?] so I land in '85
Wrote my mother's will and left my father half alive
One time, well, I asked 'em what the hell we could have done
She said, "Do yourself a favor, boy, go and get a gun"

Colt .44
Opens every door
Colt .44
Evens every score

I sent my brothers east and rode away at seventeen
Fell in with a bargirl in the town of Abilene
And then one night a cowhand got in my face, I shot him down
There was two thousand dollars on my head and that's a crown

Colt .44
Opens every door
Colt .44
Evens every score

Rode out with the Clanceys and we lived on what we stole
Till the night when Shifty Jack slipped off with half the gold
Tracked him down to Utah, he knew that his life was done
Left him in the desert, strung him up and then we sung

Colt .44
Opens every door
Colt .44
Evens every score
Colt .44
I won't be poor no more