Hair Trigger Heart

	  		
Intro 
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Verse 
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Cowboys we are 
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Cowboys we shall always be 
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Don’t let it end like this, boys 
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Tell ‘em I sense something? 

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They say trouble rides a fast horse 
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They say forgiveness rides a mule 
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Oh yeah, they say a lot of things 
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That’s why I lived by my own rules 

Verse 
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You know a man is seen in fragments 
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A scar, a limp, tattoos and broken teeth 
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Scratch the surface on most men out here 
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And you’ll find two men hiding underneath 

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But I come not here to lecture you 
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Of good and evil, black or white, right or wrong 
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I’ve come to sing my story 
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I'm the Black Jack, baby, of all those old gipsy songs 

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A loose canon, they have called me 
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A half-cocked cowboy, falling apart 
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With my war-bag full of cheap tricks 
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Dead certain, mister, of my hair trigger heart 

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Oh baby, I got a hair trigger heart 
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I got a hair trigger heart
 

Verse 
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I've known love from every angle 
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I never learned the art of the graceful getaway 
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Yeah, the poetry eludes me, sir 
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I don’t give a damn what all the minor poets say 

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"I’m not an alcoholic, I’m a drunk, there’s a difference 
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Set 'em up, kid, and make it smart" 
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I come from horse traders and half breeds 
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And a savage long line of hair trigger hearts, yeah 

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Oh baby, I got a hair trigger heart 
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I got a hair trigger heart 
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I got a hair trigger heart 


Bridge 
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All the old gunfighters are leaving town 
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Pistol packing mama, lay that pistol down 
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I’m still around 
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Lord, I've got one more round 
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And I sure hit the mark 
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With my hair trigger heart, yeah 

Instrumental 
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At the far end of eternity, you will find me 
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At a pub they call The Sword 'n' Highwayman 
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I'll have a wax museum moustache 
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Might be missing several fingers on my trigger hand 

Verse 
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I’ll have forgotten half the alphabet 
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My name, my age, my Chinese laundry mark 
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Between instinct and oblivion, mister 
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I will always hang on to this hair trigger heart 
 
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Oh baby, I got a hair trigger heart 
        F#           E      B 
I got a hair trigger heart 
        F#           E      B 
I got a hair trigger heart 
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I got a hair trigger heart 


Outro 
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Cowboys we are 
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Cowboys we shall always be