Five brothers who left Arkansas   Set out to find the gambler   Who murdered their pa   Five brothers and three in their teens   Gotta find the man   Who killed their pa in New Orleans      They heard of him in Houston   And his trail was leadin' west   He'd left there many months ago   And so they couldn't rest   Five brothers and three in their teens   Gotta find the man   Who killed their pa in New Orleans   New Orleans      The sun was hot as fire   And the nights were cold as steel   Hate was strong and youth was wild   And so they couldn't feel   Five brothers and three in their teens   Gotta find the man   Who killed their pa in New Orleans      His trail led to the Badlands   And the desert promised death   The gambler's odds were different now   He treasured every breath   Five brothers and three in their teens   Close behind the man   Who killed their pa in New Orleans   New Orleans      When first they saw the killer   He was by the waterhole   Five rifles rang out through the night   They killed the gambler cold   Five brothers and three in their teens   Finally got the man   Who killed their pa in New Orleans      The desert is their keeper now   For this a traveler said   That poison lived within the hole   Now six of them are dead   Five brothers and three in their teens   Lay beside the man   Who killed their pa in New Orleans   Lay beside the man   Who killed their pa in New Orleans