Blackie Dalton was a gun fighter
   They say that he was the fastest gun alive
   Before you could draw your gun from the holster
   You would surely die
  
   Blackie Dalton was a gun fighter
   He killed three men in abilone and four in Wichita
   He wounded one in Kansas City
   Let him live out of pity
   He was tired of killing them all
  
   Then one night in a brawl
   His brother John got killed in Wichita
   Defending his brother's name
   The Blackie Dalton fame had brought his brother shame
  
   He got word in Tucson about his brother John
   They heard him say as he left that day
   "I've got to hunt him down
   Then I'll throw my gun away"
  
   Lonely night on the trail
   He'd listen to the coyotes wail
   And sympathise with the cry
   For one more man must die
  
   Blackie Dalton was a gun fighter
   The fastest gun alive is what they say
   He caught that man shot him down
   Turned and walked away
   Yes, he threw his gun away
  
   Blackie Dalton was a gun fighter
   But he turned his back on the life that he had led
   A man remembered from Kansas city
   Didn't have any pity
   He shot Blackie dead
   Yes he shot Blackie dead
  
   Lonely nights on the trail
   The cowboys tell a different tale
   Blackie didn't really die
   No, Blackie didn't really die
  
   Blackie Dalton was a gun fighter
   The fastest gun alive is what they said
   He changed his name and in his grave
   The Kansas man instead
   With this marker at his head
   "Blackie Dalton was a gun fighter"