The Silas Powell Band - Dark Haired Stranger

Dark Haired Stranger
Lyrics and Music by Jeff Powell

We settled in the valley in the spring of 83
Two horses and a wagon, my darlin wife and me
Built a cabin by the river what a wondrous life we made
20 months and 10 days later laid my darlin in her grave
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This valleys wide and full of danger
Somewhere Out There rides a dark-haired stranger
Going to hunt him down and make him pay
For the precious life he stole away

He rode in one evening sitting on a Dapple Gray
We gave him food and shelter and we sent him on his way
I saw the way he looked at her with evil in his eye
I didn't like that darker stranger I was glad to say goodbye

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I lit out next morning I was only going a day
That stranger washed my cabin and he saw me right away
When I return my darling she was cold near her death
She told me about that stranger with her last dying breath

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Now I'm sitting on this mountain top and looking down below
I smell his fire burning she is tracks up on the snow
Although I'm not a killing man I'm going to take his life
For I can't rest until I have Avenged my darling wife

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