The Ballad Of Danny Bailey (1909-1934)


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Some punk with a shotgun kille
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d young Danny Bailey
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Killed him in cold blood, in the lobby  
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of a downtown motel
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Killed him in ange
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r, a force he couldn’t handle
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Helped pull the trigger tha
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t cut short his life
 
And there’s  
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not many knew hi
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m the way that we did
 
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nough he was a wild one, but then a
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ren’t most hungry kids, oh
 
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Woah-
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oh, 
 
 
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woah-
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oh, 
 
oh,
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Now it’s all  
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over 
 
 
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Danny
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Bailey 
 
 
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An
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t
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ha
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rvest is in
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Dillin
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ger’s 
 
 
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dead, 
 
 
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woah- oh
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I guess  
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the 
 
 
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cops
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won 
 
a gain
 
Now it
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al
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over
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Danny 
 
 
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Bailey
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the
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har
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vest is  
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in

We’re running short of heroes back up here in the hills

Without Danny Bailey we’re gonna have to break up our stills
So mark his grave well `cause Kentucky loved him
Born and raised a proper, I guess life just bugged him
And he found faith in danger, a lifestyle he lived by
A running gun youngster in a sad restless age

 
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