Sweet Celia Ann (aka Mattie Earp) (Hanson)

She worked the tables at the local saloon
Made her money getting cowboys loaded in the fading light of the afternoon
He was a law man from a frontier town
He could settle a hoorah without ever hitting the hammer down

She wore a feather in her long, golden hair
Her smile could spark a fire in a holy house of common prayer
He took her by her small hand and brought her to his home
He promised her his true love—His heart never more to ramble and roam

Chorus:
Once upon a time in the Wild, Wild West,
Gamblers and gunmen put their courage to the test
If you woke up in the morning, you were truly blessed
And, you lived another day in the Wild, Wild West

They traveled off together as a husband and his wife
They followed the cards and the chips and the money as a way of life
But by the springtime, he had found another girl
She had to put that feather back into those fading curls

Chorus:
Once upon a time in the Wild, Wild West,
Gamblers and gunmen put their courage to the test
If you woke up in the morning, you were truly blessed
And, you lived another day in the Wild, Wild West

She awoke one morning in a dusty, one-room shack.
Beside her was a stranger—How did her life get so off track?
So, she sipped some laudanum from a tarnished, silver spoon
Evermore to slumber ‘neath the shadow of a golden moon

Chorus:
Once upon a time in the Wild, Wild West,
Gamblers and gunmen put their courage to the test
If you woke up in the morning, you were truly blessed
And, you lived another day in the Wild, Wild West

Chorus:
Once upon a time in the Wild, Wild West,
Gamblers and gunmen put their courage to the test
If you woke up in the morning, you were truly blessed
And, you lived another day in the Wild, Wild West