Born under a south kentucky sky
He'd come west to mexico to fight 1842 at mier
The gutters filled with blood and fear
Barely made it back to texas alive

With missouri volunteers when the war began
In '46 they crossed the rio grande
There he met his dark-eyed love

Hey hey Davy Brown
You weren't born a killer
But ya can't tell it now

Take that shotgun
Saw it on down
A string full of ears
For Davy Brown

One step ahead of that hangman's noose
Gonna take 'em all with ya when they come for you

Hey hey Davy Brown
Ke

See those storm clouds rollin' in
Just like I knew it would begin
Midnight sky at noon today
Shelter's still so far away

And I don't know just what we'll do
I don't know just where we'll go
All I know is we've got to move
All I know is to keep you close

Never

Your mother died the night you were born
Her name you never knew
Look away
Look away
Nothing to loose

Left east tenneessee at fourteen
Wondered to the west
Look away
Look away
Born into death

You fought the sailors in New Orleans
You worked the fla

In my hands
I hold the ashes
In my veins
Black pitch runs
In my chest
The fire catches
In my way
A setting sun

Dark clouds
Gather round me
To the West
My soul is bound
But I will go
On ahead free
There is a light
Yet to be found

Old death, where are you now?
You've left me behind somehow
Drank deeply from your cup
Now see what I've become

What's left but ash and burn?
No last pale light to follow
Along here, to find my way
I'll catch up with you one day

And this old death is crooked i

I rode myself into the ground
But hell, it's almost over now
I don't see nothing but the light
Darkness filled my days
The rising sun has shown the way
And I don't see nothing but the light
A preacher's lesson, simply armageddon
The devil, he knows how to write
Ki

I done some preachin' back in texas before the war
Now I hunt heathens 'cause it pays better than the lord
I ride with demons, the devil at my side
Be it us or the heathens, we must all pay a heavy price

I've seen
The hoof prints cloven in the stone
Now tell me what kin