Slingshot Lyrics

My old man, he's got a shotgun

He's always got someone to outrun

He's wanted by the blue for first-degree

I don't think he knows about me

He lives in a shack, oh, out west

He chops his own wood on his land

He's got a dog, it's dark as can be

My mama told me stories to scare me

I knew a boy he had a slingshot

He causes trouble, never seemed to get caught

He landed in the cage at fourteen

I think he was the same age as me

He broke out when he turned nineteen

Road a bike out west to Calgary

Met a man in a shack with a good old dog

He fed him and taught him how to write some songs

They made a gang and terrorized the west coast

People watched as they burned down the red rose

I heard they got caught on the borderline

Sixteen bullets did their things to take their lives