JESSE'S LAST RIDE
words and music by Sonny Tackett & Gary Stewart /C/2005
Moondancer Music ,BMI

VS1...........JESSE AND ZERELDA,HAD TWO CHILDREN,
BOB FORD TOOK THEIR DADDY AWAY.
SHOT IN THE BACK,HANGING A PICTURE,
FORD SENT HIM TO A HERO'S GRAVE.
Chorus.......
NO ONE COULD ROB A TRAIN,
LIKE THE LEGEND JESSE JAMES,
SAID BOY'S, I'M ONLY TAKING OUT A LOAN.
NOW THAT SAME OLD TRAIN,
THAT BROUGHT JESSE FAME,
IS TAKING JESSE HOME.........
VS2............
THE YEARS OF THE CIVIL WAR,
KNOCKED ON JESSE'S DOOR,
HE WAS ONLY JUST A BOY IN HIS TEENS.
THEN HE JOINED BLOODY BILL,
AND THEY STORMED THE GATES OF HELL,
AND THE RAILROAD PUT A BOUNTY ON HIS NAME.
Chorus...............................................................................................
VS3.............
THE PINKERTON MAN,COULDN'T TRACK HIM DOWN,
SO THEY TRACKED DOWN HIS MOTHER INSTEAD.
HE PAID WITH HIS LIFE,ON A COLD MISSOURI NIGHT,
JESSE PUT A BULLET IN HIS HEAD.
Refrain..........
THEY SAY YOU CAN HEAR HIM,DOWN IN THE BREAKS,
IN THE WHISPERED WORDS AROUND THE CAMPFIRE LIGHT.
OR THE MOURNFUL SOUND, OF THAT OLD WESTBOUND,
THE GHOST OF JESSE'S LAST RIDE.
Chorus..........
NO ONE COULD ROB A TRAIN,
LIKE THE LEGEND JESSE JAMES,
HE SAID BOYS, I'M ONLY TAKIN' OUT A LOAN.
NOW THAT SAME OLD TRAIN,THAT BROUGHT JESSE FAME,
IS TAKIN' JESSE HOME.............................................................