As write this letter to you darling I can't hold the teardrops from my eyes For at sundown I will lay a dying at the door of the Fool's Paradise Rode into this cattle town morning left my bearer to check the market price And I walked into the nearest barroom they call the Fool's Paradise There the crowd was gay and girls were dancing And the men were playing and dies So I stepped up to the bar to join them what a grand place this Fool's Paradise It was I showed to them your picture I passed it around once or twice a man insulted your sweet honor at the bar of the Fool's Paradise
So I his face and I told him I said you eat 'em words Mister or draw that's my advice And said well somebody might get hurty inside But I'll be glad to meet you in the street at sundown sundown in front of the Fool's Paradise So goodbye darling may God bless you I go to make this sacrifice And if ever you visit old Dodge City remember the Fool's Paradise