Elton John Lyrics

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The Ballad of Danny Bailey Lyrics

Some punk with a shotgun killed young Danny Bailey

 In cold blood, in the lobby of a downtown motel

 Killed him in anger, a force he couldn't handle

 Helped pull the trigger that cut short his life

 And there's not many knew him the way that we did

 Sure enough he was a wild one, but then aren't most hungry kids

 

 Now it's all over Danny Bailey

 And the harvest is in

 Dillinger's dead

 I guess the cops won again

 Now it's all over Danny Bailey

 And the harvest is in

 

 We're running short of heroes back up here in the hills

 Without Danny Bailey we're gonna have to break up our stills

 So mark his grave well `cause Kentucky loved him

 Born and raised a proper, I guess life just bugged him

 And he found faith in danger, a lifestyle he lived by

 A running gun youngster in a sad restless age