Del Mccoury - Henry Walker lyrics

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We’re seeking information

About a man who's living here

His name is Henry Walker

Now don’t you fret and fear

His crime is cold blood murder

He’s wanted by the law

We’ll take him back to face his crime

It’s the worst you ever saw

Well we know Henry Walker

He lives way back in the woods

Where he hunts and traps and fishes

And his living ain’t too good

But if you aim to catch him

You better learn his hunting ground

He’ll hide just like an old white hare

And you know he can’t be found

CHORUS:

Yes the cold was splitting timber

With a crack like a 44

And the wind was whistling through the lonesome pines

It bit right through my parka

And froze me to the core

As the wolves were howling on the timberline

We reached ol’ Henry’s cabin

By noon of second day

He must have heard us coming

For he up and he ran away

We camped by the rocky rapids

While the moon was shining bright

We heard ol’ Henry laughing

Way out in the night

We tracked him for a week or more

Through the swamp and through the hills

Till a rifle roared I cried “My God

My partner has been killed”

I propped him by an ol’ jack pine

And swore a solemn vow

“Lookout Henry Walker

It’s you and me right now”

So then I started thinking

He could not be found

Then one day by a frozen lake

Like a fox he went to ground

And he tried to run

But the ice was thin

And he fell on through

I watched him as he sank and swore

“I’ll put a curse on you”

I dragged my frozen partner

Through the ice and through the snow

I lost three fingers and a toe

To the frostbite don’t you know

Though the years have come, the years have gone

I think about those times

When Northern lights are dancing

It makes me feel like crying

Chorus:

As the wolves were howling on the timberline

As the wolves were howling on the timberline