There's a little girl down south   And her daddy's got a ranch    'Bout as big as my town   And one day I swear    I'm gonna go down there and get her out   From the letter that I got last fall   She said you know you're the one I love most of all   But my face is up on the sheriff's wall   And there's reward signs posted up    And down the red river line   That I cross that very night   Trying to find my heart and looking for a fight   And there were four guards standing on the wall   I drew two six-guns   And I watched them fall   Oh yeah    Yeah    Well I came busting through them gates    Into a 12 gauge and a 38   But I was quick on the draw and I got 'em all   Yelled out to Rosa Bella   As she came walking softly through the night   Her hair so long and looking at me    With those big blue eyes    I grabbed her hand and we ran to leave   But her daddy came a-running from around a tree   And said    "Ain't no way my daughter's leaving here with no cherokee"   Oh yeah   Well, in my rage and to his surprise   I looked him deep in his buckshot eyes   And he had his hand on his gun but I was holding mine    And I'm running down this indian highway   In a ball of red   I got a loaded gun and things are goin' my way for a change   Well, you might think that I'm gonna be swingin' from a tree   Oh, no I'm a spirit boy   Ain't nobody gonna catch me    No, yeah, yeah, yeah...   (chanting)   We made love that very night   Under a burnt auburn cancun sky   I guess now I'm a Mexican   'Cause in Texas I'm a wanted man   She got up in an all-white gown    From the man who shot her daddy down   Somewhere in the heat of the night there was a shot & idots   And I'm running down this indian highway   In a ball of red   I got a loaded gun and things are goin' my way for a change   Yeah   Well, you might think that I'm gonna be swingin' from a tree   I know I'm a spirit boy   Ain't nobody gonna catch me    Yeah   I'm a spirit boy   Ain't nobody gonna catch me   Yeah   I'm a spirit boy   Yeah   Ain't nobody gonna catch me   Yeah