Me and my good partners   we were riding back to our camp   we were feeling very fine   and the air was clear and slightly damp   and we were riding back to have ourselves a party   to celebrate the robbing of the train       We were talking kind of low and lazy   about not having to go out soon again   you know we hadn't been back home two hours   we heard a hawk cry out in the night   and you know that's a signal from young Billy, who's our sentry       He's saying something here ain't exactly right   so we quick grabbed some of our hardware   stumbled out of our home   in two minutes flat we had found her   an Indian girl all alone       and Eli said, "Let's take her back to the cabin"   I said, "You don't know she might be the law, yeah"   He said, smiling kind of nasty   "It ain't too damn likely she'll beat me to the draw."       As we were walking back through the darkness   I heard the Duke, he's our dynamiter, say   he said, "What's your name, sweet little Indian girl?"   She said, "Raven." and she looked away   Right then I didn't trust her, no and I said so, oh no       Now, Eli, he's our fastest gunner   He's kind of mean and young from the South   he said, "Fat Albert, you're getting kind of old and weird now."   "You'd better get your twelve gauge shot gun right out."       Now Eli and the Duke they got down to it   they each wanted the Indian girl for their own   but when they finally got around to asking her   you know she said she'd come to take young Billy home   Eli said he'd kill young Billy   he'd kill the Duke, and probably me too, yeah       The Indian girl said, "Go ahead now do it"   I said "Stop it", and she bit my thumb nearly clean through   and when they finally started to break down the door   I smeared my face up with blood from my thumb   I laid down on the floor and played real good possum       You know I'm crazy but I ain't real dumb   now I'm dying here in Albuquerque   I must be the sorriest sight you ever saw   you know the reason I'm the only man here to tell it   you know that Indian girl, she wasn't an Indian she was the law