Outlaws - Hurry Sundown -1977

My first exposure to The Outlaws was this album. Fantastic players and vocals! A trip back in time now.... Songs with stories...next album was NRPS, and then 'Green Grass and High TIdes' from New Riders of The Purple Sage (NRPS).
Those were some kick-ass times in the good ole USA!! Keggers in the canyons, hot high school love...now the US seems to be descending into pure scumbaggery. Maybe we always were. But I didn't know 1/100th of what I know now.
I did know, even back when this album came out, that Nixon and China would mean that the Chinese would want what we had, and told my friends this...and now they are one of the biggest threats to our once great nation.

Sad, really.

Back when John Prine was making songs like 'Beautiful World...'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ula3NggdfRc
and now its https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lS8RjCRolSM

"Hurry Sundown"

Gypsies danced around the campfire, shook their tambourines
They were waiting for the ghost of an outlaw, Sundown was his name
As the midnight hour grew closer and the sky began to fall
You can see his shadow in the light of the moon
They had heard the gypsies' call

She had hair as black as darkness, eyes of emerald green
Oh, her voice was soft and tender, oooh she loved sing
She will sing no more, or dance again or shake her tambourines
They had taken her away, she was dead and gone, you can hear the gypsies sing

Ooh, hurry Sundown (the gypsies' cry)
Ooh, hurry Sundown
Ooh, hurry Sundown (the gypsies' cry)
Hurry Sundown

Ooh, hurry Sundown (the gypsies' cry)
Ooh, hurry Sundown
Ooh, hurry Sundown (the gypsies' cry)

Silver devils in his holsters, stars strapped to his heels
There was fire in his eyes, they say that he was dressed to kill
He had hands as fast as lightning, a heart as cold as steel
He had come for the one that took her life, to lie him in Boot Hill

Gypsies danced around the campfire, shook their tambourines
They were waiting for the ghost of an outlaw, Sundown was his name
As the midnight hour grew closer and the sky began to fall
You can see their shadows in the light of the moon
They had heard the gypsies' call

Ooh, hurry Sundown
Ooh, hurry Sundown
Ooh, hurry Sundown
Ooh, hurry Sundown