For Love - Robert Earl Keen

Strapped my guns and courage on;

set my cattle free

Rolled a smoke and I made a vow no more to be reviled

Combed her hair and laid her out;

pretty as you please

Watched the fire light up the night;

cryin' like a child

Saw a man in San Antone shoot down a dancing queen

And asked him on his hangin' day «What was he thinkin' of?»

He said «I never liked the way she treated me so mean

In the end I tell you friend I did it all for love»

Stood out on the ragged edge and there I took the fall

I did it all for love my friend, for love I did it all

Just this side of Devil’s Dream, above the sulphur mine

I found the man who robbed me of the girl I loved and lost

I asked him before he died «What made him cross the line?»

He asked me «Did I mean the line I just stepped across?»

Stood out on the ragged edge and there I took the fall

I did it all for love my friend, for love I did it all

I-I-I-I

Wonder why-y

I’ve walked this earth these many years and left a trail of fire

But once I was a gentle man every bit like you

I watched the heavens open up, heard the angel choir

Sing the holy song of God, 'To thine own self be true'

Stood out on the ragged edge and there I took the fall

I did it all for love my friend, for love I did it all

I did it all for love my friend, for love I did it all