The Best Of Joe Ely

Please understand me everything's all right I just musta notta gotta lotta sleep last night I was high flyin' down Riverside Drive Rockin' to the radio man alive Stopped into a joint bought a round of booze Hot dog I got a buzz in my shoe! Please und

Me and Billy the Kid never got along I didn't like the way he cocked his hat and he wore his gun all wrong. We had the same girlfriend and he never forgot it She had a cute little Chihuahua until one day he up and shot it He rode the hard country dow

As I was riding across the Mississippi stopped there and I cried No use for a man to keep a mighty river all dammed up inside I jumped bail from the Sweet water County, now I'm on the run On my head is a five number bounty, for a crime I never done T