Will James

[Verse 1] When I was but a small boy, pa bought me many books About the creatures on the river banks, and the sins of old sea cooks But the one I never left behind, were the old forgotten gains Were the tale of wild and windy slopes about a man they called Will James [Chorus] And his race to reach the sun set was a high and lonesome time Like a coyote always looking back he left no tracks behind So I memorized these pictures and it's still the very best If whiskey was his mistress his true love was the west [Verse 2] I remember up on dead man creek about 30 years and more I hired on to break in colts which I'd never done before Just a city kid, I asked myself Now what would Will James do And you know it was the damnedest thing but it kind of got me through [Chorus]