INTRO Well there’s a light -on yonder -mountain and it’s callin’ me to shine There’s a girl over by the water fountain and she’s asking to be mine And ait that Jesus’s he’ standing in the doorway with a buckskin jacket boots and spurs so really fine He says we need you up in Dodge City son because there’s (hold) oh so many bad boys tryin’ to work the same line Well now if Jesus was the sheriff and I was the priest if my lady was an heiress and my mama was a thief oh and papa rode shotgun for the Fargo line (hold) still too many bad boys tryin’ to work the same line Now old sweet Virgin Mary she runs the Holy Grail Saloon Where for a nickel they’ll give you whiskey and a personally blessed balloon And the holy ghost hes the host with the most he runs the berlesque show Where they let in for free but ooh hit you for your soul when you go And Mary serves mass on Sunday and then she sells her body on Monday To the bootlegger who will pay the highest price Well he don’t know he got stuck with the losin’ Mary stone Junkie what’ more she’ a boozer She’ only been made once or twice by some kind of magic Well things ain’t been sane in heaven ever since big bad Bobby came to town He’ been known to down eleven and then ask for another round And me I got scabs on my knees from kneelin’ way to long You got to take a stand be a man up where you belong And forget about the old friends in the old times But there’ just too many new boys trying to work the same line. Well now if Jesus was the sheriff and I was the priest if my lady was an heiress and my mama was a thief oh and papa rode shotgun for the Fargo line (hold) still too many bad boys tryin’ to work the same line Well now if Jesus was the sheriff and I was the priest if my lady was an heiress and my mama was a thief oh and papa rode shotgun for the Fargo line still too many bad boys tryin’ to work the same line Well there’s a light -on yonder -mountain and it’s callin’ me to shine There’s a girl over by the water fountain and she’s asking to be mine And Jesus’s hes standing in the doorway with 6 guns drawn ready to fan He says we need you up in Dodge City son I’m already overdue in Cheyane