Destiny, there's no escape for any man From the very day you're born your destiny is planned Destiny A man drove into town one day all dressed in somber black Three tombstones in his buckboard and a shovel in his pack He drove straight to the graveyard and there he dug three holes The headstones bore a message to three departed souls Destiny "What happened?" said a passerby The man said, "Nothing yet But three of us are going to die before the sun has set One grave is for my woman, who loved unfaithfully The second's for her lover, and the other one's for me" Destiny, there's no escape for any man From the very day you're born your destiny is planned Destiny The man put down his shovel and buckled on his guns And later in the doorway he faced the fated ones But in the eyes he hated, the terror that he saw Filled his heart with pity, and he knew he couldn't draw Destiny Then a gang of desperados descended on the town And in the fight that followed, the three of them went down As the gunman lay there dyin', his last words were said to be "Nothin' could have saved us, this was our destiny" Destiny, there's no escape for any man From the very day you're born, your destiny is planned Destiny Destiny Destiny