Steel-Eyed Kid Shelleen
There came into town a gun deadly and frightening,
a gun quicker than lightening,
fastest gun you've seen.
It was the gun in the hand of Steel-Eyed Kid Shelleen.
Just one look at him would confirm every rumor.
Kid was wild as a cougar,
proud and fierce and mean.
There was no man who was tougher than Steel-Eyed Kid Shelleen.
He had the eyes of a killer
and looks like the devil.
The look of a killer.
The look of the devil.
The face of a killer.
That man was the devil,
just wild and ornery and mean.
Kid Shelleen, the fastest gun you've ever seen.
Kid Shelleen died in Poughkeepsie
from an overdose of whiskey.
Copyright © Billy Thekidster | Year Posted 2010
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