Smoking Gun

action western

Get your gun

Meet me in the middle of the street

where the dust is thin

and the hearts are heavy

Where you should have your pistol ready

could it be another gun fight at the OK corral

The western winds are a blown

Pistols are loaded

Gangs with guns

Lawman on one side

outlaws on the other

Mother's son's and daughter's sending up prayers for one and other

The streets are empty

only the gunfighters rights

who will live or who will die

we will know by the end of the night

Graves are being dug as we speak

at the boot hill cemetery 

They took their last drink

at the saloon

Its time for a gun fight in the afternoon

trigger happy gun man

ready to go

Gun in hoisters hand ready to draw

Now who shoots first 

who goes to heaven

who goes to hell

Its a gunfighters paradise

in an old western town

smoking gun

Smoking gun

who lay on the ground

Reviews

[Valentine]

This sounds like one of the westerns that play every day on the western channel. Duck when the bullets fly. Valentine

[nazia]

This is such an intelligent piece. I liked the element of the gangmen, guns, fires, graves. you have used every aspect of the gang fight. Nice write Smitty :)

[Confuser]

Smitty: You surprise me with so much diversity, but it is always great writing....I loved it all...and "boot hill" cemetary was great:
a gunfighters paradise
in an old western town
smoking gun
Smoking gun
who lay on the ground....As I read I was thinking about all the crime in America especially in larger cities & with gangs...Great writing.....Dale