Jeremiah Colter was the biggest man in town He'd swing that hammer overhead and bring that mountain down First light to the darkness hounding for gold Sleep beside the fire with just a rifle and his mule Well seven years of toiling with nothing to show but sand Can you come up from the ground with a nugget in his hand The way he whooped and hollered the birds flew from the trees And he was loaded up in three days time his true love bound to see Hadn't made it a dozen miles when hoof beats met his ears and He urged his mule faster as the bandits drew near He came upon a valley where a lonesome cabin stood If he could hold them there till morning He could hold them there for good They broke through the brambles, five fires flickered red Two shots broke the darkness and the first of them fell dead They rushed the door and took it down caught the first one with His knife And he pinned him to the door frame, the sunset in his eyes He was wilder than a rattlesnake and cold as the snow He hung them up and bled them out and left him for the crows Jeremiah Colter was the biggest man in town He'd swing that hammer overhead and bring that mountain down First light to the darkness hounding for gold Sleep beside the fire with just his rifle and his mule