Dark Rider from Hands Full by Jody Mosser

I set out past midnight, can you hear the coyotes wail
I'm guided by the spotlight of the moonlit trail
The law dog is closing in, I can feel them coming fast
I'm short of breath, with holster in hand
Gonna give them one last stand

I look up to the mountain and leave it all behind
Lay my tracks down the road for someone else to find
Rolling through the valleys further from my home
A starry gaze will amaze this feeling all alone, this feeling all alone

I'm twenty miles north of Tulsa with the dawn upon my back
Gotta keep the saddle riding, riding further from my past
He got my bullet back in Memphis, I buried him deep in the sand
The sheriff put a warrant out on my head
When the swore his right hand

I look up to the mountain and leave it all behind
Lay my tracks down the road for someone else to find
Rolling through the valleys further from my home
A starry gaze will amaze this feeling all alone, this feeling all alone

• Folk
• bluegrass
• old time
• swing
• Frostburg