MOLLIE BROWN
(Jack Rhodes - Billie Jo Spears)
Billie Jo Spears - 1968
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Way back yonder when the West was young
Old Mollie Brown was the first to come
To the Big Bend country where the bear was wild
The rattlesnakes sang to the crocodiles
She crossed that river on an old sand bar
Pickin' and a'singin' on her old guitar
She'd crack that whip and shoot a gun
Way back yonder when the West was young
She had a one-eyed jack and a longhorned steer
Pullin' her wagon from here to there
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She wouldn't back down from a knife or a gun
Way back yonder when the West was young
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She made her way to El Paso
Her team was a'weak and her money was low
She married a man in a big saloon
And shot him dead 'fore the clock struck noon
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The gamblers came, the gamblers went
She stripped their pockets of every cent
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She cracked their skulls with an old sixgun
Way back yonder when the West was young
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Old Mollie took a bath just once a week
Where the water was muddy 'bout ankle deep
She smelled mighty purty on Sunday morn'
But the scent sure changed 'fore the week was gone
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She drank hard liquor from an old tin can
Killed a Blackfoot chief with her two bare hands
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She told everybody "All fine, I had ??? ???"
I put my mark on the whole darn tribe
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She drove out West in the burnin' sand
A'buyin' up cattle and a'grabbin' up the land
She stopped in a valley and built a town
To this day it's called Old Mollie Brown
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To this day it's called Old Mollie Brown
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To this day it's called Old Mollie Brown
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(Transcribed by Mel Priddle - February 2019)
