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They called him a thief and a swindler
A seducer and a cheat
With a hunder for freedom and for fortune
That burned at the soles of his feet
Oh that bad man
William Hayes

In his sixteenth American winter
They cut one ear from his head
From his sea of misfortune he'd wonder
If his glass was half full or half dead
Oh that bad man
William Hayes

He left his wife in San Francisco
He washed her taste from his mouth
He left her a note on the table
And all that it said was headed South
Oh that bad man
William Hayes

He was caught in the night of a hotel
By a vaudaville family refrain
He led them all South into winter
Where he told them he'd lead them all to fame
Oh that bad man
William Hayes

Then he fell like a drunk for Rosetta
They caught him a fox among the hens
When he showed her that just like a mirror
Bed sheets can multiply men
So he ran with Rosetta to the ocean
But his sea of misfortune ran wild
It gave him the eye of a hurricane
but it stole both his lover and his child
Oh that bad man
William Hayes

Now some say grief drove the poor man crazy
Some say greed turned his broken heart cold
Some say that he learned by the pistol
That life can be taken and sold
So he gathered his brothers
And he drove them
Through weeks of high seas and hard rain
Til I heard that he fell just like Abel
Struck in the tempel by Caine

Oh that bad man
William Hayes

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from Last Year's Tune, released March 30, 2015

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