Written by: Lee Clayton
Performed by: Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings, The Highwaymen: Johnny Cash & Kris Kristofferson
Apears on: Highwayman 2-1990, Super Hits-1999, The Highwayman Collection-2000, et al.
[Kristofferson:]
I'm gonna steal me a silver stallion,
With not a mark upon his silky hide.
Teach him he can trust me like a brother,
One day we'll saddle up and ride.
[Cash & backup singers:]
And we're gonna ride, we're gonna ride.
Ride like the one-eyed jack of diamonds,
With the devil close behind.
We're gonna ride.
[Jennings:]
I'm gonna find me a reckless woman,
Razor blades and dice in her eyes.
Just a touch of sadness in her fingers,
Thunder and lightnin' in her thighs.
[Cash & backup singers:]
And we're gonna ride, we're gonna ride.
Ride like the one-eyed jack of diamonds,
With the devil close behind.
We're gonna ride.
[Nelson:]
I'm gonna chase the sky forever,
With the woman and the stallion and the wind.
And the sun is gonna burn into a cinder,
Before we ever pass this way again.
[Cash & backup singers:]
And we're gonna ride, we're gonna ride.
Ride like the one-eyed jack of diamonds,
With the devil close behind.
We're gonna ride.
