| Five brothers who left | |
| ArkansasSet out to find the gambler | |
| Who murdered their pa | |
| Five brothers and three in their teens | |
| Gotta find the man | |
| Who killed their pa in | |
| New Orleans | |
| They heard of him in | |
| HoustonAnd his trail was leadin' west | |
| He'd left there many months ago | |
| And so they couldn't rest | |
| Five brothers and three in their teens | |
| Gotta find the man | |
| Who killed their pa in | |
| New Orleans | |
| New Orleans | |
| The sun was hot as fire | |
| And the nights were cold as steel | |
| Hate was strong and youth was wild | |
| And so they couldn't feel | |
| Five brothers and three in their teens | |
| Gotta find the man | |
| Who killed their pa in | |
| New Orleans | |
| His trail led to the | |
| BadlandsAnd the desert promised death | |
| The gambler's odds were different now | |
| He treasured every breath | |
| Five brothers and three in their teens | |
| Close behind the man | |
| Who killed their pa in | |
| New Orleans | |
| New Orleans | |
| When first they saw the killer | |
| He was by the waterhole | |
| Five rifles rang out through the night | |
| They killed the gambler cold | |
| Five brothers and three in their teens | |
| Finally got the man | |
| Who killed their pa in | |
| New Orleans | |
| The desert is their keeper now | |
| For this a traveler said | |
| That poison lived within the hole | |
| Now six of them are dead | |
| Five brothers and three in their teens | |
| Lay beside the man | |
| Who killed their pa in | |
| New Orleans | |
| Lay beside the man | |
| Who killed their pa in | |
| New Orleans |