Gangster Of Love

Album: Gangster Of Love (1957)
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  • Jesse James and Frank James
    Billy Kid, all the rest
    Supposed to be some bad cats
    Out in the West
    But when they dug me
    And my gangster ways
    They hung up their guns
    And made it to the grave

    Cause I'm a gangster of love
    Say I'm a gangster of love
    Well now
    When I walk down the street
    All the girls that I meet
    Say he's a gangster of love
    Yeah

    I robbed the local beauty contest
    For their first place winner
    They found her with me out in Hollywood
    Eating a big steak dinner
    They tried to get her to go back
    To pick up her prize
    She stood up and told them
    You just don't realize

    That he's a gangster of love
    Early in the morning, gangster of love
    Ooh yeah, now
    When I walk in a bar
    Girls from, from near and far
    Say he's a gangster of love
    Oh let me invade a little

    I jump on my white horse, Cadillac
    I ride across the border line
    I rope sixty five girls
    I kiss them all the same time
    I take twenty five or thirty
    I'd put them all on a freight
    A million dollar reward for me
    Each and every state
    The Sheriff says, is you Guitar Watson?
    In a very deep voice
    I say, yes sir, brother Sheriff, and that's your wife on the back of my horse

    Cause I'm a gangster of love
    Yeah, I'm a gangster of love
    Hey, yeah
    When I walk down the street
    All the girls that I meet
    Say he's a gangster of love Writer/s: JOHNNY GUITAR WATSON
    Publisher: Universal Music Publishing Group
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Comments: 1

  • Dino from San Francisco, CaI enjoy Watson's guitar playing -- not overly fast with redundant notes, but tasty phrasing, with a funky tone. I bought one of his albums and, though he composed all the songs, half of them were melodies from popular songs. He makes up for this with extremely funny songs and lyrics. Soulful.
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