[Verse 1]
He was just 16 and a gambling man
Tried to pull the wool on a perfect hand
Why you wanna go down a path like that
Once you lose your soul, you can't go back

On the trail with a band of fear
Ain't no place for a young man here
What you gonna do if you ain't quite sure
So I laid a man on the devils door

[Chorus]
And my head hung low in the crimson sky...
All dressed up and ready to... die
Wish I coulda changed me a better man
Fixin myself for one last stand

[Verse 2]
Roll through town like a southern wind
Sun-burnt face and leather skin
What you wanna do, with a boy like me
Hangman's noose 'll only set me free

Dream at night when the sky goes black
What I could been if I took it all back
What you gonna do when you got no past
Nothing gonna change when the dye been cast

[Chorus]
And my head hung low in the crimson sky...
All dressed up and ready to... die
Wish I coulda changed me a better man
Fixin myself for one last stand

[Bridge]
Ohh... my weary heart it stumbles
Ohh... my soul it starts to waste
Ohh... and when I quake I tremble
Ohh... my hands they can not strangle fate

[Chorus]
And my head hung low in the crimson sky...
All dressed up and ready to... die
Wish I coulda changed me a better man
Fixin myself for one last stand

[Post-Chorus]
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[Outro]
And my head hung low in the crimson sky...
And my head hung low in the crimson sky...
And my head hung low in the crimson sky
All dressed up and ready to... die
Wish I coulda changed me a better man
Fixin myself for one last stand
And my head hung low in the crimson sky
All dressed up and ready to... die