True Love Knows No Season (Billy Gray) Songtext
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Billy Gray rode in to Gantry way back in ′83
There he first met with young Sarah McLean
The wild rose of morning the pale flower of dawning
Heralded springtime in Billy's life that day

Sarah she could not see the daylight of reality
In her young eyes Billy bore not a flaw
Knowing not her chosen one he was a hired gun
Wanted in Kansas City by the law

Then one day a tall man came riding from the badlands
That lie to the north of New Mexico
He was overhead to say he was looking for Billy Grey
A wanted man and a dangerous outlaw


Well the news it came creeping to Billy lie sleeping
There in the Clarendon bar and hotel
He ran to the old church that lies on the outskirts
Thinking he′d hide in the old steeple there

But a rifle ball came flying face down he lay dying
There in the dust of the route where he lay
Sarah ran to him she was cursing the lawman
The poor girl knew no reason except that he'd been killed

Sarah still lives in that old white frame house
Where she first met Billy some forty years ago
But the wild rose of morning has faded with the dawning
Of each day of sorrow the long years have grown

And written on that stone where the dusty winds have long blown
Eighteen words to a passing world say
True love knows no season, no rhyme nor no reason
Justice is cold as the Granger County clay