glory road

tonight i'm gonna sleep in a good hotel, a nice warm bed, if all goes well, i've been out in the badlands, twenty one days, tracking my bounty down, he was only a kid, maybe seventeen, but he traded love away for a streak of mean, now he's tied to my saddle, with his head hung low, out on the glory road, so all you downtown ladies, won't you, down, got some gold in my saddle bags, i'd trade it for a smile, let have dinner on the devil tonight, tomorrow there'll be hell to pay, won't you come along, i'll be riding on, the glory road someday, two men painted painted on a midnight sky, one slung low, the other riding high, i wonder if anybody knows just why, i had to shoot him down, and now i'd lay me down to rest, god bless the boy, my bullet in his chest, but you can't bless me, 'cause i lost my soul, out on the glory road, so all you downtown ladies, won't you, down, got some gold in my saddle bags, i'd trade it for a smile, let have dinner on the devil tonight, tomorrow there'll be hell to pay, won't you come along, i'll be riding on, the glory road someday, won't you come along, i'll be riding on, the glory road someday