Jack Hall

Lyrics

[Intro] Ooh, I got one! Jack Hall! Do you know Jack Hall? [Verse 1] I am a band of highway men, Jack Hall is my name My crimes and depredations brought my friends to shame Robbing o' the North Field Bank the same I can't deny For now I am a prisoner in the Stillwater Jail I lie [Verse 2] 'Tis of a bold high robbery a story to you I'll tell Of a California miner who unto us befell Robbed him of his money and bid him go his way For which I will be sorry of until my dying day [Verse 3] And then we rode toward Texas through dust and fierce heat Across the Nebraska prairies the Miller boys we did meet Knives, guns, and revolvers, we all set down to play A drinking of good whiskey to pass the time away [Verse 4] A Central Union Railway train was the next we did surprise The crimes we done by our bloody hands bring tears into my eyes The engineer man, the fireman killed, the conductor escaped alive And now their bones lie molten beneath the Nebraska skies [Verse 5] Then we sat on horses, north westward we did go To godforsaken country, they call it Misadio Had my eye on the Northfield Bank when Brother Bob did say Now Jack if you undertake the job you sure will curse the day [Verse 6] But I stationed out my pickets, up to the bank did go And there upon the counter I struck my fatal blow Just hand us all the money, and make no further delay For we are the famous Hall Brothers, we spare no time to pray [Verse 7] Then came a rain of bullets, my brothers and I fled But they just kept on coming, shooting us until we bled So now I sit in jail to settle accounts and pay the cost We tried a desperate game in life, we tried that game and lost