My Daddy's Dueling Pistols

from Skin Your Smokewagon by Porkchop Express

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My Daddy's dueling pistols used to hang upon the wall
He said that they'd belong to me when I got strong and tall
We'd play around the mountain sides, until the year the well ran dry
Still the dueling pistols were hanging on the wall.

My daddy and his brothers took up a brand new trade
with water, corn and sugar a fortune could be made.
They'd sneak through the mountain sides, making stump whiskey by candlelight
And daddy fed his family with the money they were paid.

One day when my mother and I went in to town
we said goodbye to daddy, digging fence posts in the ground
Word came down the mountain side, they said that my daddy died
Revenuers snuck up and they shot my daddy down.

My mother looked to me and said, "Son, you're now a man."
she took down the dueling pistols and she put them in my hand
"Paint blood on the mountain side, avenge your daddy's death tonight!"
I said, "I'll make them suffer, ma, anyway I can."

My daddy’s dueling pistols used to hang upon the wall
He said they’d belong to me when I got strong and tall.

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

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