Pumped 'em on us till it sounded
Like they had an army there.
Nancy stayed and cracked it to 'em,
Kind o' circlin' round and round;
I could tell the two six-shooters
She was usin', by the sound.


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"You can bet we did some trav'lin'
All that night and all next day;
I could still a-hear the shootin'
After we was miles away.
I supposed we'd see the girl come
Ridin' up to us 'fore long,
That is--I was jest a-thinkin'--
If there wasn't somethin' wrong.
But, in spite of all our lookin',
Sometimes slackin' up our gait,
Always thinkin' we should see her
Every time we'd stop and wait.
We have never seen her, Billy,
And I own I'm balked a bit,
Fur I know that she's a critter
Made of nothin' else but grit.


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