Most Promising Officer

MOST PROMISING OFFICER

I wandered the trail a mile or three
A day or maybe a week
'Til I came to the crossroads place
Where I could no longer speak
I raised my face up to the sky
Where the prairie sun burns white
On the lonely Llano Estacado
At the place of the Mackenzie fight

He was the most promising, most promising officer
The most promising, most promising officer

Now the ghost ponies wail in the bloody swale
Where their bones bleach white in the sun
At night a light flashes across the sky
Where the thunder stallions run
Up north in the Bighorn snow
Where the Tongue's clear waters flow
There's a cut-throat pony in the blizzard night
Where the Old Ones' feet were froze

He was the most promising, most promising officer
The most promising, most promising officer
The most promising, most promising officer
The most promising, most promising officer

I guess it's true when they say
That Custer died for our sins
I figure he got what he deserved
For the rest of us the judgin's not in
Mackenzie couldn't bear the burden
He could not still the cries
He could only dream of a Colt Army 45
Right between the eyes

He was the most promising, most promising officer
The most promising, most promising officer
The most promising, most promising officer
The most promising, most promising officer

I raised my face up to the sky
Where the prairie sun burns white
On the lonely Llano Estacado
At the place of the Mackenzie fight