I try and publish an article every now and then when something new comes up for those who are keeping up with what I am doing with music. Earlier I published the song Blame that I co-wrote with my singing partner Cheryl. We Just recieved the Copywrite and registration on Halfbreed Outlaw today this song is registered as My self and Cheryl writing the lyrics and Pat Elwood composer of music. Pat is the Bass Player for The Marshall Tucker band. Cheryl, Pat and I are hoping it is one of the songs Doug Gray (Original Lead singer) will include on their album they will be recording later this year 2011.
I was a blast writing with Cheryl and Pat. I hope to have a clip up after we know if it will be on the album. Also being from Arkansas I had to include one famous historical person in the song. The Hanging Judge, Judge Parker from Fort Smith Arkansas. Here are the words to Halfbreed Outlaw.
He was born in Oklahoma and raised in Arkansas....No one could tame this halfbreed outlaw
His father was a white man and his only sin, He married a Cherokee on the reservation just around the bend
She bore him a son, that took the white man's....then he turn to the bottle just to hide the shame
Fatherin' a halfbreed put a black mark on his name.. even though the child was innocent they're somethings you just can't change.
Chours
Hand me down my saddle and go and get my gun
Cause devil's in this bottle and it's got me on the run
If I don't make the border before the morning sun
Judge Parkers gonna hang me for a crime I haven't done
Loved by his mother despised by his pa..he walked in both worlds... belongin' to none at all
He found numbness in the bottle and protection by the gun..yeah the halfbreed outlaw spend his life always on the run
Took him a job about a mile from ole man Johnson place...back in the Arkansas timber to hide his sorry and disgrace
When Sheriff found ole man Johnson a 44 struck the final blow ah empty whiskey bottle lay next to him in the red stained snow
2nd chours
Hand me down my saddle and go and get my gun
Cause devil's in this bottle and it's got me on the run
If I don't make the border before the morning sun
Judge Parkers gonna hang me for a crime I haven't done
The sheriff gathered his posse with one thing in mind...the halfbreed outlaw was working on the Arkansas timber line
as they came upon the ridge and looked down below....They saw the halfbreed outlaw ridin' hard through the snow
(Play Music break out 4X....first gun shot at end of first riff/Gun shot canyon echo at end of music break)
