Walter Brennan - Six Feet Away lyrics

(Jimmy, had the fastest gun until yersterday

But now he's lyin' in the ground just six feet away.)

Jimmy was a, a young man come full of fun and play

Until one day he killed a man an' he had to run away

His friends all tried to tell him how he'd end up some day

Well, now he's lyin' in the ground under six feet of clay.

(Jimmy, had the fastest gun until yersterday

But now he's lyin' in the ground just six feet away.)

Jimmy left that mornin' headin' for Mexico

Where a man an' a, a horse need water and you gotta travel slow

For the desert is the devil's furnace and it's full of rattle snakes

And it means that cool clean water turns the sand to shimmerin' lakes.

We found his horse next mornin' covered with driftin' sand

An' we knew that we'd find Jimmy, desperate an' fightin' mad

We asked him to surrender but well, the answer was pigs got lead

We didn't want to do it but we had to shoot him dead.

(Jimmy, had the fastest gun until yersterday

But now he's lyin' in the ground just six feet away.)

(Six feet away, just six feet away, just six feet away...)