Love me, love me, love me, say you do Let me fly away with you For my love is like the wind And wild is the wind Give me more than one caress Satisfy this hungriness Let the wind blow through your heart For wild is the wind You touch me I hear the sound of mandolins You kiss me With your kiss, my life begins You're spring to me All things to me Don't you know your life itself

Reap the wild wind Reap the wild wind Reap the wild wind A finger points to show a scene Take my hand, take my hand Another face where mine had been Take my hand, take my hand Another footstep where I once walked Take my hand, take it all You take my hand and give me your friendship I'll take my time and send you my slow reply Give me an inch and I'll make the best of it Take all you want and leave all the rest to die Reap the wild wind A footprint haunts an empty floor Take my hand, take my hand A fading coat that I once wore Take my hand, take my hand Oh, desolation where I once lived I have seen in times gone by I have felt a different shadow on the wall A stranglehold on a certain feeling You take my hand and give me your friendship I'll take my time and send you my slow reply Give me an inch and I'll make the best of it Take all you want and leave all the rest to die Reap the wild wind Reap the wild wind You take my hand and give me your friendship I'll take my time and send you my slow reply Give me an inch and I'll make the best of it Take all you want and leave all the rest to die Reap the wild wind

Reap the wild wind Reap the wild wind Reap the wild wind A finger points to show a scene (Take my hand, take my hand) Another face where mine had been (Take my hand, take my hand) Another footstep where I once walked (Take my hand) Take it all You take my hand and give me your friendship I'll take my time and sell you my slow reply Give me an inch and I'll make the best of it Take all you want and leave all the rest to die Reap the wild wind A footprint haunts an empty floor (Take my hand, take my hand) A fading coat that I once wore (Take my hand, take my hand) Oh, a desolation where I once lived I have seen in times gone by I have felt A different shadow on the wall A stranglehold on a certain feeling You take my hand and give me your friendship I'll take my time and sell you my slow reply Give me an inch and I'll make the best of it Take all you want and leave all the rest to die Reap the wild wind Reap the wild wind You take my hand and give me your friendship I'll take my time and sell you my slow reply Give me an inch and I'll make the best of it Take all you want and leave all the rest to die Reap the wild wind

Love me, love me Say you do Let me fly away with you We are creatures of the wind Wild is the wind Give me more than one caress Satisfy this hungriness We are creatures of the wind Wild is the wind You touch me I hear the sound of mandolins, baby You kiss me With your kiss my life begins Like a leaf clings to a tree Baby, please cling to me We are creatures of the wind Wild is the wind You touch me I hear the sound of mandolins And you kiss me With your kiss my life begins Love me, love me Say you do Let me fly away with you

Jeremiah Colter was the biggest man in town He'd swing that hammer overhead and bring that mountain down First light to the darkness hounding for gold Sleep beside the fire with just a rifle and his mule Well seven years of toiling with nothing to show but sand Can you come up from the ground with a nugget in his hand The way he whooped and hollered the birds flew from the trees And he was loaded up in three days time his true love bound to see Hadn't made it a dozen miles when hoof beats met his ears and He urged his mule faster as the bandits drew near He came upon a valley where a lonesome cabin stood If he could hold them there till morning He could hold them there for good They broke through the brambles, five fires flickered red Two shots broke the darkness and the first of them fell dead They rushed the door and took it down caught the first one with His knife And he pinned him to the door frame, the sunset in his eyes He was wilder than a rattlesnake and cold as the snow He hung them up and bled them out and left him for the crows Jeremiah Colter was the biggest man in town He'd swing that hammer overhead and bring that mountain down First light to the darkness hounding for gold Sleep beside the fire with just his rifle and his mule

Oh Maggie Maggie Maggie she's the prettiest girl in town All the boys try to court her but she always turns them down She swoops like a swallow and she's dancing in the barn With her head up in the rafters and her feet Pounding on the boards Oh Maggie she's a wildflower everybody knows You can't pick her you can't plant her You can't tell her where to grow Oh Maggie Maggie Maggie slips out late at night Goes waltzing by the river with the stars in her eyes You'd chance her for a phantom if you saw her on the banks Oh Maggie mine in a white lace dress where the wild river sings Oh Maggie she's a wildflower everybody knows You can't pick her you can't plant her You can't tell her where to grow Oh Maggie Maggie Maggie sitting in the tallest tree Smoking on a cigarette yeah she has no time for me She's further than the forest when I'm standing in the field And all the prairie ghosts are crying because they know Just how I feel Oh Maggie she's a wildflower everybody knows You can't pick her you can't plant her You can't tell her where to grow Oh Maggie she's a wildflower everybody knows You can't pick her you can't plant her You can't tell her where to grow Oh Maggie Maggie Maggie she's the prettiest girl in town All the boys try to court her but she always turns them down She swoops like a swallow when she's dancing in the barn With her head up in the rafters in her feet pounding on the boards

And I found her there beneath that willow tree And I said, "Oh my darling, won't you come with me?" And she said, "No, Charlie boy, I can't go with you I'm pledged to another by mother Though our love ain't true" He said, "What if I took your hand And I led you 'cross the sea? Then would you forget 'bout him? Would you marry me?" And she said, "No, Charlie boy, that just cannot be If you flee across the ocean blue You'll shame my family" He said, "What if I took a knife And I put it in his chest? Then would you believe me darlin' That I love you best?" And she said, "No, Charlie boy, that jus' wouldn't do If you put a knife in his chest The law'll be after you" So I see her standing up there in a white lace dress And the priest cries out, "Does anyone protest?" And they said, "No, Charlie boy, sit back in your pew She's marrying another man There's nothing you can do" And I guess I couldn't take it And I just saw red And I pulled my pistol off my hip And I shot him in the head And they said, "No, Charlie boy What the hell'd you do? You killed him on his wedding night The hangman'll have you soon" So I'm rotting here in this city cell And by tomorrow morning I'll be wasting in hell And they said, "Oh, Charlie boy Look how far you've fell She never even loved you, and now she never will"

Well I gambled my last dollar on a girl in a sequin dress I was just outside of Philly trying to thumb my way back west In a dirty bathroom mirror, I tried to cut myself off I was always all or nothing and my courage keeps getting lost All the words you said to me came back on the drive Couldn't bear to bring myself inside because I'm barely alive Oh darling mine oh I'm going to make it back to you I'm going to make it back to you Oh darling mine oh I'm going to make it back to you I'm going to make it back to you I keep waking up with cold sweats they've been tearin' me at my seams I wish missing you was easier than you've been missing me All the anger in my bloodline had me going for my knife I felt guilty I felt crazy I cried the rest of the night Every time I turn around I see the look in your eyes Couldn't bear to bring myself inside because I'm barely alive Oh darling mine oh I'm going to make it back to you I'm going to make it back to you Oh darling mine oh I'm going to make it back to you I'm going to make it back to you oh You could call me in the morning just to see if I'm all right You could tell me that you love me even if I know it's a lie I'll keep driving in the direction my home used to be But it's just a worn out picture dancing like a faded magazine And every time I look inside feel like I'm losing my mind Couldn't bear to bring myself inside because I'm barely alive Oh darling mine oh I'm going to make it back to you I'm going to make it back to you Oh darling mine oh I'm going to make it back to you I'm going to make it back to you oh

And you can run for the hills You can run for the hills But I'll catch you You can't run from me And I'm gonna bring you back in chains Oh, I'm gonna bring you back in chains And hang you from the hanging tree 'Cause you can run, boy But you can't outrun Me And he cried, "Mercy, mercy, let me go!" And he cried, "Mercy, mercy, save my soul!" But my gun went bang, bang, bang! And he hit the floor Well, I think he's there still 'Cause you can run, boy But you can't outrun The devil They say you killed ten men They say you killed ten men But I don't Well, I don't give a damn And I hear you're mean as hell Well, I hear you're mean as hell But I'm sure you've heard Well, I'm pretty mean as well 'Cause you can run, boy But you can't outrun The devil And he cried, "Mercy, mercy, let me go!" And he cried, "Mercy, mercy, save my soul!" And then my gun went bang, bang, bang! And he hit the floor I think he's there still 'Cause you can run, boy But you can't outrun The devil Yeah, when the sun breaks the sky When the sun breaks the sky Oh, you'll draw your final breath 'Cause you can run, boy But can't outrun The death Yeah, you can run, boy But you can't outrun The death And he cried, "Mercy, mercy, let me go!" And he cried, "Mercy, mercy, save my soul!" And then my gun went bang, bang, bang! And he hit the floor I think he's there still 'Cause you can run, boy But you can't outrun The devil

I was sitting beside the road in Black Jack County Not knowing that the Sheriff paid a bounty For men like me who didn't have a penny to our name So he locked my leg to 35 pounds of Blackjack County Chain And all we had to eat was bread and water Each day we had to build that road a mile and a quarter Black Snake Whip would cut our backs when some poor fool complained But we couldn't fight back wearing 35 pounds of Blackjack County Chain One night while the Sheriff he lay sleeping We gathered all around him slowly creeping Heaven help me to forget that night in the cold cold rain When we beat him to death with 35 pounds of Black Jack County Chain Now the whip marks have all healed and I am thankful There's nothing left but a scar around my ankle But most of all I'm glad no man will ever be a slave again To that Black Snake Whip and 35 pounds of Blackjack County Chain Most of all I'm glad no man will ever be a slave again To that Black Snake Whip and 35 pounds of Blackjack County Chain To that Black Snake Whip and 35 pounds of Blackjack County Chain