The Rattlesnake Trail lyrics

Got a hair shirt round my shoulder. Got a cold stew in my spoon.
And I'm falling on my head, lifting feet of lead ---
Now it's got me baying at the moon.
Well, there's a race on for tomorrow. I'm stretching out
For what might have been.
Going to come out from the night, got my second sight ---
Play rough --- you know what I mean.
I'm going for the kill. I'm going tooth and nail
Up that dusty hill --- on the rattlesnake trail.
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Got the law laid down to the left of me. Got the real world to the right.
Heading up through the middle with my cat and my fiddle ---
Yeah, looking for a fight.
Going to ride hard in bandit country --- on the blind side of the bend.
Keep my nose to the wind while the rabbit's skinned ---
Bed down at the journey's end. (Be a rattlesnake.)
I'm going for the kill. I'm going tooth and nail
Up that dusty hill --- on the rattlesnake trail.

The rattlesnake trail.
I'm going on the rattlesnake trail.

Going to be with wolves in winter --- run in angry packs by day.
But when you give a dog a bone, he has to be alone ---
Growl, keep the other dogs away.
See that thin moon on the mountain. See that cold star in the sky.
Going to bring them down --- shake them to the ground ---
Put that apple in the pie. (Be a rattlesnake.)
I'm going for the kill. I'm going tooth and nail
Up that dusty hill --- on the rattlesnake trail.