Wild Bill was born in Illinois
and a dead shot with each hand
Claim he was the quickest,
there's few who'd ill-agree
If you were yet to saw this plainsman draw,
still breathe like you and me
He led a stagecoach freight team
in his early days of life
One evenin' on the Western Trail,
Bill took the air of night
And who should come upon him,
but a bear whom he'd awoke
Wild Bill produced his bowie knife
While a marshal in Abilene
Phil Coe told John Wes Hardin,
"Wild Bill has got to fall"
"He's a cruel and brutish yankee,
and if you don't then I will"
Wild Bill put down Phil Coe,
Wes Hardin's livin' still
