E5                  B5                  A5 
I?a man who?goin?o hell with heaven?blessing 
    E5                  B5                A5 
The judge said I?not fit to live with men 
        E5             B5                  A5 
They? building me a gallows in the courtyard 
   E5                 B5              A5 
To make sure I don?pass this way again 
 

   E5              B5                   A5 
My first taste of killin?as at Vicksburg 
  E5          B5                A5 
I must have shot me a hundred men 
  E5                  B5                 A5 
I learned to make my livin?ith a six-gun 
       E5              B5             A5 
I?an outlaw now but I was a hero then 
 
Chorus: 
E5             B5               A5 
Lord if I had only known the misery 
     E5                 B5                 A5 
That glory?somethin?ot worth killin?or 
  E5               B5                A5 
I wish now I had never touched the handle 
                 B5      E5 
Of a Hairtrigger Colt .44 
 

E5       B5             A5 
I was a hunted desperado 
  E5                 B5           A5 
A wanted man with a price on my head 
  E5                     B5                   A5 
I thought that I could steal a taste of freedom 
  E5        B5                  A5 
I got me a hangman?noose instead 
 
Repeat Chorus 
E5          B5            A5 
Undertaker write on my tombstone 
  E5              B5                  A5 
A killer finally killed and nothin?ore 
  E5                      B5               A5 
I wouldn?be here if it hadn?been for Providence 
                  B5      E5 
And a Hairtrigger Colt .44 
 
Repeat Chorus 2x