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Silver City

from Steel Audrey by Steel Audrey

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In the bowels of New York City
On the eve of the Civil War
There was born a Henry McCarty
To an Irish woman of lore
Henry was a mild mannered child
Until the age of fourteen
When he laid his mother down
From the White Plague Disease

[she lies] In Silver City, New Mexico
300 miles south of Santa Fe

As a kid they called him Antrim
He was a slender seventeen
Real quick with a sixgun
A gambler and a horse thief
He killed Frank "Windy" Cahill
A blacksmith by trade
He shot him down in a quarrel
With an old Colt .38

[he fled] to Silver City, New Mexico
300 miles south of Santa Fe

It was winter in Lincoln County
The year 1878
When a sheriff named William J. Brady
Was shot down in the Lincoln "debate"
A notch in a left-handed holster
Of one young beardless kid
An outlaw, a left-handed cowboy
Sentenced to be killed

In Silver City, New Mexico
300 miles south of Santa Fe
A notch in a left-handed holster, of one young beardless kid
The Outlaw, The Left-handed Cowboy... named Billy the Kid

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from Steel Audrey, released July 3, 2012

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Steel Audrey Vancouver, British Columbia

Steel Audrey is a country-folk artist with a “rustic, old world sound packaged inside the cargo car of a freight train...” (Songoid). His ability to tell a story through song is reminiscent of Kristofferson, Dylan and Springsteen. His blue-collar origins are evident in both narrative and delivery .."extra powerful and raspy... It’s not a pretty picture, but then, life never is.” (Greyowl Point) ... more

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