The Last Goodbye

[Verse] Underneath the desert moon, I dug a shallow grave, For Jimmy, my old outlaw friend, in the place where he was brave. He stole hearts and silver, but now the time had come, For me to lay his weary soul beneath the setting sun. [Verse 2] On a wooden cross I carved his name, a farewell to a ghost, His gun belt hanging, swaying, like whispers in the post. By the firelight, his stories danced through my mind's haze, The good times and the hard roads, forever in a daze. [Chorus] So ride, ride, ride, Travis through the night, Leaving memories behind in the pale star's light. Farewell to the outlaw, friend till the end, With a gun belt on a cross, where life and legend blend. [Verse 3] Riding through the ghost towns, the wind began to cry, With echoes of the past that never seemed to die. I raised my hat to Jimmy, to the life he never chose, Just a boy who grew too fast, with every door that closed. [Verse 4] In the morning light I'll journey, through the canyon's stone, As a gunslinger without a friend, but never quite alone. For Jimmy's shadow follows, in the dust of every mile, His laughter in the thunder, a melancholy smile. [Chorus] So ride, ride, ride, Travis through the night, Leaving memories behind in the pale star's light. Farewell to the outlaw, friend till the end, With a gun belt on a cross, where life and legend blend.