Priceless Antique Pistol Shoots Startled Owner - Corb Lund

Inspect the silver inlay and the finely engraved steel

Rich carved ivory grips with checkered lines that you can feel

You’ll find it premature to call the calibre obsolete

When olden tyme design and modern treacherous-ness meet

A curio that’s slipped between our current laws, as read

Priceless as an artifact but leaves you just as dead

Craftsmanship like this is not displayed much anymore

And there ain’t too many gangstas shooting Russian .44

To think a learned chronicler like you would be the one

Whose eye for detail failed to see him dusting off your gun

You must be the first in ninety years to meet his death

By way of antique archaic black powder pistol’s breath

Despite your recent injuries you must admit that still

It remains an elegant and stylish way to kill

Yes despite my injuries, good sir, I cannot lie

It remains an elegant and stylish and way to die