[Pilsner]

My first pistol was a cap & ball Colt,

Shoot as fast as lightning, but he loads a mite slow ...

Loads a mite slow, loads a mite slow,

She'll get you into trouble that she can't get you out.

from the same song by Steve Earle.

[SWake]

The Webb Wilder version of the last verse of the song is something like:

Well, I got into a card game in a company town
I caught a man cheatin' - I shot the dog down
Shot the dog down, watched the man fall
He never touched his holster, never had a chance to draw.

The trial was in the morning and they drug me out of bed
They asked me how I pleaded. "Not guilty," I said
"Not guilty," I said, "You got the wrong man,
No one touched the trigger but the Devil's Right Hand."

Ironic that he would choose to quote a song that blames the gun for the crime, isn't it?