20 Paces Turn and Fire

from Skin Your Smokewagon by Porkchop Express

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The first step I take is for my ma
Her kind face and smiling eyes (twenty paces turn and fire)
The second step is for my pa
How he worked hard all our lives (twenty paces turn and fire)

The third step I say a prayer
The fourth step I breath the air

The fifth step is for sister Joan
How she helped to raise me right
The sixth step is for brother Tom
How we'd laugh and play and fight

The seventh is for sweet Renee
The eighth is for our wedding day

The ninth step is for the night
That El Blanco came to town
The tenth step is for the day
That he shot my family down

Eleventh step I wonder why
Twelfth step tears fall from my eye

Thirteenth step for the vow I made
The fourteenth I curse El Blanco’s name

The fifteenth step my eyes are dry
My resolve is strong once more
The sixteenth step is for the years
That we've spent to fight this war

Seventeenth for the men I lead
Eighteenth for the trail of the dead

The nineteenth step I brace myself
I squint my eyes against the sun.
The twentieth step is here at last
So I turn and grab my gun.

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from Skin Your Smokewagon, released June 28, 2018
Lyrics - C. Conoley
Music - Porkchop Express

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