Name: Mr. Bonney
Duration: P00H04M31S
Description: Written By Barry Lawson

Mr. Bonney

from Floating In Space by Lawson Reunion

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Written By Barry Lawson

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When Billy was a young boy, he fell into the wrong crowd.
He lived for fame and fortune, he wanted to be proud.
Billy didn't understand the wrong from right.
Billy killed his first man in a bar room fight.

Always on the run for the many crimes he'd done,
Billy lived his life behind a loaded gun,
he practiced all day long, he had the fastest hand,
Billy sent 21 men to the Promised Land.

Terror of the Southwest,
that's what the paper said.
You better keep on riding
before you end up dead.

He made a deal with the Governor to testify one day,
if he'd turn in the others, they'd let him ride away

Always on the run for the many crimes he'd done,
Billy lived his life behind a loaded gun,
he practiced all day long, he had the fastest hand,
Billy sent 21 men to the Promised Land.

Billy rode the country wide
with his so-called friends,
little did he know they made a deal
to bring his end.
Garrett caught him in an ambush,
the history books do say,
did he live to be an old man?
Some say, he got away.

Always on the run for the many crimes he'd done,
Billy lived his life behind a loaded gun,
he practiced all day long, he had the fastest hand,
Billy sent 21 men to the Promised Land.

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from Floating In Space, released August 17, 2012
Barry Lawson: Lead Vocals, Guitar
Clint Lawson: Guitar
Jesse Lawson: Dobro
Darin Lawson: Bass
Moriah Lawson: Mandolin
Cindy Lawson: Sound Effects

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