The Northlands

Duration

5:25

Description

Lyrics

Out of the Northlands Where the cold biting wind is a danger From the snow and the ice Rode a Ranger He'd left the Northlands And the star on his chest caught the sun. He'd a promise he'd tied to his gun. Deep in the Northlands And he's riding a horse black as coal. Far from the Northlands In a barroom that's rundown and fading Playing poker and patiently waiting Holding a good hand The bandit knew someone would come Cause when you murder an innocent son Up in the Northlands There's a price on your head and your soul. Now the lawman hits town, and starts asking around If anyone had seen the man on the poster Then it didn't take long to find the Red River Saloon. As the hot sun set down on the old western town He readied the gun in his holster And called out the killer to meet neath bright summer moon. Back in the Northlands In her dreams a widow is weeping While the small northern farm town is sleeping It's cold in the Northlands But she dreams of a small southern town Where the hot desert pulls the sun down On a good and a bad man And memories turning to gray. It's dark in the Southlands except for the silvery moonlight Shining down on a dark deadly gunfight Soon only one man Will be here to see the sun rise In a moment the other one dies In the dust and the red sand With his blood pouring out in the clay. A pistol is fanned with the bandit's left hand Six bullets spray into the night. But the ranger is steady and fires his off one at a time. With the smoke in the air, it's hard to see there Is a dying man in the moonlight And with his last breath, the church bell is starting to chime. Down in the Southlands A promise will no longer tarry with a body that a lawman must carry Back to the Northlands On his horse that is blacker than coal. Back to the Northlands To the Northlands Northlands.