I'm going to get me a brand new shiny pistol, with a long shiny barrel I'm going to get me a brand new shiny pistol, with a long shiny barrel I'm going to ramble this town over, until I find my girl I'm going to go to the station, and try to find her there I'm going to go to the station, and try to find her there And if the Lord has not got her, she's in this world somewhere She left me with a head full of trouble, and a head full of misery She left me with a head full of trouble, and a head full of misery And now she's got me crying, baby please come back home to me My mother told me, don't you weep don't you moan My mother told me, don't you weep don't you moan Because son there'll be women here, when you dead and gone When I get through rambling, and looking this whole world through When I get through rambling, and looking this whole world through I won't be dead with trouble, you know I died to lose