E5 D5 B5 B5

E5                D5
He knows well his wicked ways
 B5               C5
A course of bitterness
E5                    D5
A grudge held from his childhood days
 B5                    C5
As if life had loved him less
A5
Reading down his list of names
He ticks them one by one
F5                   G5
He points the barrel at the sky
Ab5                   Bb5
Firing shots off at the sun

E5 D5
B5                B5 
"I am the law and I am the King
E5 D5
B5               B5 
I am the wisdom , listen to me sing"

E5                D5
He carves out the victim's names
    B5                   C5
In the wooden butt of the gun
E5                 D5
He leans well back agains the tree
B5                    C5
He knows his Kingdom's come
A5
He'll breath a sigh self satisfied
The work is in good hands
F5                  G5
He shoots the coins into the air
    Ab5               Bb5
And follows where the money lands
E5  D5 
B5                B5
"I am the law and I am the King
E5 D5
B5                B5
I am the wisdom , listen to me sing"


He pauses at the city's edge
Of hellfire and of stone
He summons up the devil there
To give him courage of his own
He'll free the sinners of deceit
They'll hear his name and run
His justice is his own reward
Measured out beneath the sun
"I am the law and I am the King
I am the wisdom , listen to me sing"
And my name's on the gun
Work is just begun
The boy with the gun