Gene Clark

The Drifter
Jesse and the padre try to keep things coolKnowing exactly how to make stone into jewelsThe judge was the kind of man who always talked fastAnd the way things were goingHis world wouldn't lastThe desperado's make a planTo set the town on fireAnd when they try to make a standThey were ambushed at the wireThe drifter never stays to fightHe keeps running till he's way out of sightBut it gets him nowhereAnd the drifter never pays the priceHe's running through the day and the nightBut he's running to nowhereThe judge said boys don't you know this town is mineDon't going try to change it everything will be just fineThose desperadoes don't pay them no mindEverybody knows that they can't read or writeThe judge put Jesse in the jailAlthough there is no crimeThe padre tried to get him outWith a stick of dynamiteSongtexteThe drifter never stays to fightHe keeps running till he's way out of sightBut it gets him nowhereAnd the drifter never pays a priceHe's running through the day and the nightBut he's running to nowhereOh noThe drifter knows he can't always go with the tideThe time will come when he'll have to choose up sidesWhich way will he go will it be left or rightThe judge says things are either black or whiteThe desperado's make a planTo set the town on fireAnd when they try to make a standThey were ambushed at the wireThe drifter never stays to fightHe keeps running till he's way out of sightBut it gets him nowhereAnd the drifter never pays the priceHe's running through the day and the nightBut he's running to nowhere Aus Songtexte Mania