Текст песни Cactus Black - The Day the Rio Grande Ran Red

We sat on the bank
Of the Rio Grande
Guns at our side our boots in the sand
And I tried to skip
Stones across While Billy just watched
See me and Billy were friends since we were nine
Grammar school rodeos and fishing line
But now we've grown to an age so ripe
No real division between wrong and right
Well Billy said "Clay I must confess.
I've had good friends and you've been the best.
But something happened the other night you ought to know."
Well I loved that Billy just like he was kin
The tone of his voice had the taint of sin
So I turned around, looked him straight in the eye
And hoped no one was going to have to die
Well Billy said "Clay this is sure hard to say
But I've got to get it out

There's no other way
Late last night while you were resting your head
Your woman was with another man
In his bed
In his bed."
Well I felt like I'd just been stabbed with a knife
I couldn't imagine that my dear wife
Would go into the arms of another man
Not her own
Well suddenly my eyes they saw red
And I wanted that stealing bastard dead
And I wanted to meet him one on one
And I … to meet him and my gun
Well Billy said "Wait there is so much more
Don't go calling your wife a cheating whore
I know the man to blames identity
That man is me
That man is me."

Well I fell back shocked
I could not believe
My best friend Billy was a back stabbing thief
My legs went numb and my throat went dry
I would have given him anything
But he taken my wife
Well Billy began to sob
He got down on his knees
He said "I'm sorry, I'm sorry for your forgiveness I plead!"
I couldn't face him
I turned away
There was nothing more I wanted to say
Now in an impulse of hate
I grabbed my gun
And I shot at the sky
Straight at the sun
And then I leveled it off at young Billy's head
It was the only day
The Rio Grande ran red