"Tale of a Three Legged Dog" genre: Country Blues
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	Folk and Country Blues - a tale of murder in the old west
	CD: Cadillac   Label: Moonbeam Productions - Independent Release
	Story Behind the Song This one almost wrote itself - a tale of a man murdered for a crime he did not commit. His ghost haunts the town sherriff (the actual murderer) until he takes his own life. Recorded and written on the same gray misty day. Lyrics There are times that you can see him riding thru the fog high up on his old paint horse followed by a three legged dog Its the ghost of Red Barlow come to find those who shot him down Its been 99 years or so the story goes in town Red rode in with his five dollars to see a girl named Mary McLean down from her balcony she holarded to the street she called out his name Red burst in to take his treaure but Mary was dead on the floor the lights came crashing down around him the villain escaped out the door The barkeep well he came a running the villain he did not see Red was just then up a rising the knife lay at his feet yelling for the sherriff the barkeep hollarded It was Red Barlow that killed Miss Mary Mclean even though it was not so Just then Red well he remembered something he'd seen as he hit the floor the flash of sherriff Johnsons badge so Red hightailed it out the door How could he prove it was not so just his word against the laws out onto the street he ran to meet the bullet he never saw Red's dog Blue he barred his teeth so the sherriff he shot him too and no one knew what the sherriff really'd done August 4 1892 Well the sherriff lived with his lie but Red just would not let him be His face His voice and the blood red sky in a place called Abilene One day sherriff Johnson put a gun up to his head the shot was heard downtown and grass began to grow on Red Barlows grave where it never ever had before And sometimes you can see him riding thru the fog high up on his old paint horse followed by a three legged dog I light a smoke and quietly I wonder was justice served that day a shadow and the fog and a three legged dog forever after since that day

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