Jesse James Symphony

Jesse James is running and he'll never be at rest

Till the day they fold his arms across his chest

He's a long way from the cradle and his ma's authority

But it only seems a minute since he stood over his bed

And she tried to tell him something now what the hell was it she said

Jesse James is thinking of the breaks he never had

And the gene that cursed his blood group rhesus-bad

Jesse James lived money his account was in the black

Till the day he stopped a bullet with his back

Well the zip code may read Vegas but the heart beats tupelo

And a footstep is such a small thing that it's neither here nor there

Till you string those steps together and find home is way back

Way back where ?

Jesse James was never part of life's great symphony

All he heard were penny whistles out of key

Jesse James he promised I will never die afraid

That boy perjured every vow he ever made