Don't Take Your Guns To Town - Remastered 2024

A young boy, named Billy Joe

Grew restless on the farm

A boy filled with wonderlust

Who never really meant no harm

He changed his clothes and shined his boots

And he combed his dark hair down

And his mother cried as he walked away

"Don't take your guns to town

Don't take your guns to town

Don't take your guns

To town"

He laughed and kissed his mom and said

"Your Billy Joe is a man

I can shoot as quick

I can shoot as straight

As anybody can

But I wouldn't shoot without a cause

Of gun nobody down"

But she cried again as he rode away

"Don't take your guns to town, son

Leave your guns at home

Don't take your guns

To town"

Well he drank his first strong liquor then

To calm his shaking hands

And he tried, he tried to tell himself

At last he had become a man

The dusty cowpoke stood at his side

Began to laugh him down

And he heard again his mothers words

"Don't take your guns to town, son

Leave your guns at home

Don't take your guns

Don't take your guns

Don't take your guns to town

Don't take your guns

Don't take your guns to town"

Filled with rage then Billy Joe

Reached for his gun to draw

But the stranger drew his gun and fired

Before he even saw

As Billy Joe fell to the floor

The crowd all gathered 'round

And wondered at his final words

"Don't take your guns to town, son

Leave your guns at home

Don't take your guns

To town"