Murrietta's Head

Come on and saddle up boys cause the governor said
 He'll pay three thousand dollars for Murrietta's Head
 I hear Joaquin Murrietta's steals horses and gold
 Killed a sheriff in Mariposa or so I'm told
 He's the Devil's bloody bastard, wicked and no good
 But all the Mexican's swear that's he's Robin Hood
 Well, with my wife and my sons I work as hard as I can
 On thirteen acres of California land
 But the rains never came and I got debts I can't pay
 Now the banks gonna steal my farm away
 So, come on and saddle up, boys, cause the governor said
 He'll pay three thousand dollars for Murrietta's Head
 He don't want him alive, he wants him dead
 He'll pay three thousand dollars for Murrietta's Head
 I hear Joaquin Murrietta rides to avenge
 The murder of his wife by a mob of drunk men
 Well, I don't give a damn if it's a lie of if it's true
 Cause for his family ain't much a man won't do
 You see the fever came around and my youngest boy took ill
 And I didn't have money to pay no doctor's bills
 So I buried his body beneath that oak on the hill
 But if I had some money I swear he'd be alive still
 So, come on and saddle up, boys, cause the governor said
 He'll pay three thousand dollars for Murrietta's Head
 He don't want him alive, he wants him dead
 He'll pay three thousand dollars for Murrietta's Head
 Now the Bible says, you reap what you sow
 That may be right but I really don't know
 Well, if it is Murrietta will be damned to Hell
 And when I kill him, I'll be damned as well
 So, come on and saddle up, boys, cause the governor said
 He'll pay three thousand dollars for Murrietta's Head
 He don't want him alive, he wants him dead
 He'll pay three thousand dollars for Murrietta's Head