Johnson County War
Chris LeDoux

Headed for Wyoming, in 1882..A woman, a team, and a wagon.
Gonna make our dreams come true.
Settled in the foothills of the big horn mountain slope.
Life is sweet we lived on the meat, of the deer and the antelope.
We cut house logs on the moutain, with the team we hauled 'em down.
Peeled 'em and we stacked 'em up, for a house and bought some ground.
Traded for some cattle, and turned 'em out on the range.
The skies were blue and we never knew...How things were gonna change.
Ole powder river, you're muddy and wide, how many men have died...upon
your shores.
When you brand a man a rustler, he's gotta take a side.
There's no middle ground in this Johnson Country War.
Well, the neighbors stopped by yesterday, while I was outside choppin'
some wood.
And they filled me in on the local news, ain't none of it sounded good,
Said, they'd been some cattle stealin', by some no count outlaw bands.
We'd all been branded rustler's by the big ranchers of this land.
Well it was us against the cattlemen, and the years just made it worse.
First the drought, then the tough winter, Johnson County had been dealt
a curse,
Then their came the story about the two dry golgia tax.
Ranger Jones and John Tisdale both been shot in the back...
Oh, Powder River, you're muddy and you're wide,
How many men have died upon your shores.
When you brand a man a rustler, he's gotta take a side.
There's no middle ground in this Johnson County War.
Then last night at supper time, riders stopped by chance.
They said cattleman and hired guns, just burned the Kaycee Ranch,
Two men had died this mornin', shot down in the snow.
Now the vigilante army was marchin' for Buffalo.
Well the county was in an uproar, an every man saddled up to ride.
Caught the cattlemen at the TA Ranch, and surrounded all four sides.
We hailed the house with bullets and swore we'd make 'em pay.
But the calvery came across the plains, and once again saved the day.
Well, they marched 'em off to Cheyenne, and no one went to jail.
The cattlemen we're all turned loose, and the hired guns hit the trail.
And I guess the only justice, wasn't much to say the least.
Last winter me and mine ate mighty fine on the cattle baron's beef.
Oh Powder River, you're muddy and you're wide.
How many men have died upon your shores.
When you brand a man a rustler, he's gotta take a side.
There's no middle ground in this Johnson County War.
There's no middle ground in this Johnson County War


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  (ghost) Riders In The Sky   (i Don't Want To Be A) Country Star   (I Used to Want to Be A) Cowboy   A Cowboy Like Me   A Cowboy Was Born   A Cowboy's Got To Ride   A Cowboy's Just Got To Ride   A Cowboys Just Got To   Ain't Had Time To Go Home   Ain't No Place For A Country Boy   Ain't Had Time To Go Home   Ain't No Place For A Country Boy   Album Intro   Album Outro   All Around Cowboy   All Around Cowboy Of 1964   All Wound Up   Amarillo By Morning   Back When We Was Kids   Bad Bahama Bull   Bad Brahma Bull   Ballad Of Will Rogers   Bang a Drum   Bareback Jack   Bars Shouldn't Have Mirrors   Bars Shouldn't Have Mirrors   Between the Rainbows and the Rain   Big Love   Billy the Kid   Blizzard   Blue Bonnet Blues   Blue Eyes And Freckles   Bluebonnet Blues   Born In Mississippi   Born To Follow Rodeo   Bucking Machine   Buckskin Lady   Bull Rider   Caballo Diablo   Cadillac Cowboy   Cadillac Ranch   Cadillac Ranch (Dance Club Version)   Cadillac Ranch [Dance Club Version]   Calico Moon   Call of the Wild   Christ And The Saddle Boogie Band   Colorado   Come Riding Joe Cy   Copenhagen   Copenhagen Angel   Copenhagen Junkie   Country Fair   Country Star   County Fair   Cowboy And The Hippie   Cowboy And The Rose   Cowboy In The Continental Suit   Cowboy Is A Hell Of A Man   Cowboy Like Me   Cowboy Songs   Cowboy Up   Cowboy's Got The Ride   Cowboy's Got To Ride   Cowboy's Prayer   Cowboy's Got The Ride   Cowboy's Prayer   Cowboys Ain't Easy To Love   Cowboys Ain't Easy To Love   Cowboys Like A Little Rock And Roll   Cowcamp Blues   Daddy's Biggest Dream   Daddy's Biggest Dream   Dallas Days And Fort Worth Nights   Dallas Days And Ft. Worth Nights   Daydream Cowboy   Desperado   Dirt And Sweat Cowboy   Don't It Make You Want To Dance   Don't It Make You Want To Dance   Dream On Cowboy   Easy Come, Easy Go   Even Cowboys Like A Little Rock & Roll   Even Cowboys Like A Little Rock And Roll   Every Time I Roll The Dice   Fathers And Sons   Feels Like I'm Gettin' Into Something Good   Feels Like I'm Gettin' Into Something Go...   Fine As Wine   Five Dollar Fine   Foggy Mountain Breakdown (instrumental)   For Your Love   For Your Love [DVD]   Fourth Of July Rodeos   Freedom Ain't Free   Freedom Ain't Free   Freedom's Just A State Of Mind   Freedom's Just A State Of Mind   Get Along Little Doggies   Get Back On That Pony   Getting By A Quarter At A Time   Git Along Little Doggies   Go Riding Young Cowboy   God Must Be a Cowboy   God Must Be Cowboy   Goin' And A Blowin'   Goin' And A Blowin'   Grange Hall Dance   Gravitational Pull   Greatest Prize   Hard Times   He Rides the Wild Horses   Hippies in Calgary   Home Frown Western Saturday Night   Homecoming   Hometown Cowboy   Honky Tonk World   Honky Tonk World [DVD]   Honky-Tonk World (1994)   Hooked On An 8 Second Ride   Hooked On An Eight Second Ride   Horsepower   Horsepower [DVD]   Horses and Cattle   I Believe In America   I Can't Ride The Broncos Anymore   I Can't Ride The Broncs Anymore   I Can't Ride The Broncos Anymore   I Do It For Me   I Don't Want To Be Cowboy Anymore   I Don't Want To Mention Any Names   I Don't Want To Be Cowboy Anymore   I Don't Want To Mention Any Names   I Got You   I Ride An Old Paint   I Would for You   I'll Get The Job Done   I'm Coming Home Mom Waltz   I'm Country   I'm Ready If You're Willing   I've Got To Be A Rodeo Man   I'll Get The Job Done   I'm Coming Home Mom Waltz   I'm Country   I'm Ready If You're Willing   I've Got To Be A Rodeo Man   If You Loved Me You'd Do It   If You Loved Me You'd Do It   It Ain't The Years It's The Miles   It Ain't The Years, It's The Miles   It Ain't The Years, It's The Miles   Jeans And Good Leather   Joad'e The Rodeo Clawn   Joad'e The Rodeo Clawn   Joade The Rodeo Clown   John Ed Sang Cowpoke   Just Enough Money Honey   Just Enough Money, Honey   Just Riding Through   Lady Is Dancing With Me   Last Drive-In   Last Sunset   Lawman Reverend Brown   Lean Mean And Hungry   Lean, Mean And Hungry   Let's All Help The Cowboys (sing The Blues)   Let's All Help The Cowboys (Sing The Blues)   Life Is A Highway   Life Is a Highway [DVD]   Life Of A Rodeo Cowboy   Light Of The World   Little Joe The Wrangler   Little Long Haired Cowboy   Little Long-Haired Outlaw   Littlest Cowboy Rides Again   Lone Ranger (William Tell Overture)   Long Black Veil   Look At You Girl   Looking at You Girl   Love Needs A Fool   Making Ends Meet   Mamas Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up To Be Cowboys   Mammas Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up To Be Cowboys   Mammas Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up To Be Co...   Melodies And Memories   Mighty Lucky Man   Millionaire   Montana Rodeo   Mountain Wild   Mountain Wild Man   My Heroes Have Always Been Cowboys   National Finals Rodeo   Navajo Wrangler   Night Rider's Lament   Night Rider's Lament   Not For Heroes   Now That's All Right With Me   Now That's All Right With Me   Oklahoma Joe   Ol' Double Diamond   Ol' Double Diamond   Old Jake   Old Paint   Old Red   Old Tom Hom   Old Tom Horn   One Less Tornado   One Tonight   Only Road You Know   Our First Year   Paint Me Back Home In Wyoming   Pass My Hat   Passenger   Photo Finish   Powder River Home   Punchy Bareback Rider   Rainbow Rider   Raised By The Railroad   Raised By The Railroad Line   Re-ride   Real Live Buckeroo   Real Thing   Red Headed Stranger   Rhinestone Cowboy   Riding For A Fall   Riverboat Gambler   Rodeo Cowboy   Rodeo Hand   Rodeo Life   Rodeo Moon   Rodeo Rose   Rodeo Song   Rodeo Trails   Rodeo You've Cast A Spell   Rodeo You've Cast A Spell   Rodeo, You've Cast A Spell   Round And Round She Goes   Round And Round She Goes (The Barrel Racer)   Runaway Love   Running Through The Rain   Running Through The Wind   Rusty Spurs   Santa Claus Is Coming to Town   Scene We All Ain't Saw   Scene We All Ain't Saw   Searching For A Rainbow   Settin' The Woods On Fire   Settin' The Woods On Fire   Seventeen   She's In Love With A Rodeo Man   She's Tough   She's In Love With A Rodeo Man   She's Tough   Shot Full Of Love   Silence on the Line   Silence on the Line [DVD]   Silver Tongued Devil   Silver Tongued Devil And I   Simple As Dirt   Six Bucks A Day   Six Bucks a Day [#][*]   Slow Down   Smack Dab in the Middle   So You Want To Be A Cowboy   Soft Place To Fall   Some Things Never Change   Someday Soon   Something In The Wind   Sometimes You've Just Gotta Ride   Sometimes You've Just Gotta Ride   Song Of The Yukon Rose   Song Of Wyoming   Sons Of The Pioneers   Stampede   Strawberry Roan   Strugglin' Years   Strugglin' Years   Struggling Years   Sweet Wyoming Home   Take Me Back To Old Wyoming   Take Me To The Rodeo   Ten Seconds In The Saddle   Tennessee Stud   Thank The Cowboy For A Ride   That's What Loving You Means To Me   That's What Loving You Means To Me   The Blizzard   The Bucking Machine   The Buckskin Lady   The Bull Rider   The Cowboy and the Hippie   The Feeling Comes Back   The Fever   The Greatest Prize   The Lady Is Dancing With Me   The Last Drive In   The Last Sunset   The Lawman Reverend Brown   The Life Of A Rodeo Cowboy   The Littlest Cowboy Rides Again   The Ol' Double Diamond   The Passenger   The Red Headed Stranger   The Ride   The Rodeo Hand   The Wild Bunch Rides Again   The Yellow Stud   Them Bareback horses   There's A Rodeo In Montana   There's Nobody Home On The Range Anymore   There's A Rodeo In Montana   There's Nobody Home On The Range Anymore   They Couldn't Understand My Cowboy Songs   They Couldn't Understand My Cowboy Songs   Thirty Dollar Cowboy   This Cowboy's Hat   This Cowboy's Hat By Chris Ledoux   This Cowboy's Hat   This Cowboy’s Hat   This Old Cowboys Hat   Tie A Knot In The Devil's Tail   Tie A Knot In The Devil's Tail   Tight Levis And Yellow Ribbon   Tight Levis And Yellow Ribbons   Time   Too Old To Play Cowboy   Too Tough To Die   Tougher Than The Rest   True Western Movie   Tweedle Dee   Under This Old Hat   Under This Old Hat [DVD]   Utah Tribute   Western Skies   What More Could A Cowboy Need   What You Gonna Do With A Cowboy- Chris Ledoux   Whatcha Gonna Do With A Cowboy   Whatcha Gonna Do With A Cowboy - With Garth Brooks   Whatcha Gonna Do With A Cowboy (with Garth Brooks)   When I Say Forever   When The Rodeo Comes To Town   Where Is The Glory   Wife Behind The Cowboy   Wild And Wooly   Wild Bunch Rides Again   Willie The Wandering Gypsy   Willy The Wandering Gypsy And Me   Winner   Workin' Man's Dollar   Workin' Man's Dollar   Working Cowboy Blues   Working Man's Dollar   Wyoming Girl   Yellow Brick Road Turns Blue   Yellow Stud   You Just Can't See Him From the Road   You Just Can't See Him From The Road

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