Comin' After Jenny - Burl Ives (布勒·埃夫斯)

He'll be coming down the road

At the break of day

His head thrown back and his guns tied low

He's coming after Jenny wants to take her away

But I ain't gonna let her go

Oh he boasted in town but she loved him

He said she'd be his with the sun

He said anyone try to stop him

Would be just one more notch on his gun

They say he's headstrong and handsome

His hair's blowing wild and free

And they got a hold

I ain't coming 'cuz he's a lot younger than me

He'll be coming down the road

At the break of day

His head thrown back and his guns tied low

He's coming after Jenny wants to take her away

But I ain't gonna let her go

He hasn't had much education

And he ain't worked a day in his life

He's living with some older woman

They say she's another man's wife

But she wants him and needs him and loves him

She buys him his clothes and his meals

When she finds he's gone she'll be praying

And Lord I know just how she feels

But he'll be coming down the road

At the break of day

His head thrown back and his guns tied low

He's coming after Jenny wants to take her away

But I ain't gonna let her go

The sun's at his back as he's coming

The smile is cruel on his lip

His right hand is slowly descending

To the sixgun that rests on his hip

Then his lower lip started to tremble

And he started crying as he looked up at me

As I picked him up

I said "Son you're only four years old

And you know Jenny is only three

So come on inside the house

And have some cookies and milk

And he did and the tears turned to smiles

And I called up his mama

And I drove him home

And Jenny's safe at least for a little while