warn all the horses warn all the riders that the fire is coming down tell my mother my father and sister there ain t nothing to worry about i want loretta but she won t have me she married a loser and he makes her happy i m gonna leave now the things i was thinkin buried on a dirt road where my heels are sinkin pack all the instruments shoot off the rifles climb up on the hillside and wait for the nightfall and take to the highway one more time wait for the right words to fall int rhymes i want loretta but she won t have me she married a loser and he makes her happy bet him in a fist fight i ll beat him in a knife throw beat him in a shot glass loretta s stone cold i met a preacher man and he felt the same he told the boys and the robbed the bank they caught him in the next town he was holdin the knife he said we re gonna work on the chain gang for the rest of our lives i want loretta but she won t have me she married a loser and he makes her happy i want loretta but she won t have me she married a loser and he makes her happy