My daddy told me Boy, you only shoot to kill
I'm livin' just for
that thrill
Nobody hurts me 'cos the payback's twice as bad
In this
town you don't make a man mad
(1) Ted McKinley's dying
At the
wheel of his truck
The engine running till it seized up
And nobody heard
a thing
Not a shout or gun shot ring
Just a smell of diesel in the
dust
(Diesel in the dust)
McKinley wouldn't back down from any
man alive
But you need to if you're to survive
The folks in town wanna
settle their score
By using their own kinda law
(1) Repeat
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No one had seen a thing when the
sheriff's car pulled in
Just the silence you get from kin to kin
The
preacher bowed his head, glad that he was dead
And the better the least that was
said
(1) Repeat
In this town there was a man out on
his own
With no account of how he stood alone
Nobody hear a thing, not a
shout or gun shot ring
Just the smell of diesel in the dust
Diesel in the
dust