For Love
Written by: Robert Earl Keen
Times Played 228
First Played 07-06-2006
Last Played 02-26-2025
Lyrics:
- Strapped my guns and courage on; set my cattle free
- Rolled a smoke and I made a vow no more to be reviled
- Combed her hair and laid her out; pretty as you please
- Watched the fire light up the night; cryin' like a child
- Saw a man in San Antone shoot down a dancing queen
- And asked him on his hangin' day "What was he thinkin' of?"
- He said "I never liked the way she treated me so mean
- In the end I tell you friend I did it all for love"
- Stood out on the ragged edge and there I took the fall
- I did it all for love my friend, for love I did it all
- Just this side of Devil's Dream, above the sulphur mine
- I found the man who robbed me of the girl I loved and lost
- I asked him before he died "What made him cross the line?"
- He asked me "Did I mean the line I just stepped across?"
- Stood out on the ragged edge and there I took the fall
- I did it all for love my friend, for love I did it all
- I-I-I-I
- Wonder why-y
- I've walked this earth these many years and left a trail of fire
- But once I was a gentle man every bit like you
- I watched the heavens open up, heard the angel choir
- Sing the holy song of God, 'To thine own self be true'
- Stood out on the ragged edge and there I took the fall
- I did it all for love my friend, for love I did it all
- I did it all for love my friend, for love I did it all