From the recording Stumblin Out of the Gate / WAVE
Written by Jack Dunlap
Published by Frogtown Music (BMI)
Arranged by Jack Dunlap
Recorded by Will Shenk
Produced by Jack Dunlap, Robert Mabe and Will Shenk
Jack Dunlap: Guitar, mandolin, lead vocal
Robert Mabe: Banjo
Alex Kimble: Bass
Mason Wright: Fiddle
Time Is Running Out was written by Jack Dunlap. It was originally going to be featured on his solo project that evolved into Stumblin’ Out The Gate. It was written in the Fall of 2020 while Jack was “in his rediscovering the guitar” stages. “I was sitting in my lesson studio one day waiting for a student and just running through some riff ideas. I knew I wanted to write a story song based on something that might happen in a Western movie. All of a sudden, the first line came to me, “Just through the holler I hear their horses run…” and the rest of the song just came out.”
-Jack Dunlap
Lyrics
Lyrics:
Just through the holler I hear their horses run
And it won’t be long till my outlaw days are done
If I could tell you I didn’t do no wrong
Then I wouldn’t be on the wrong end of a gun
But my time is running out
I can hear the lawman shout
I never meant no trouble honest cross my heart
Just wrong place wrong time cause when the shooting start
I drew my pistol in self defense
But now the sheriffs lying cold it’s not making any sense
So my time is running out
I can hear the lawman shout
We’ve got him cornered up ahead
It won’t be long till he’s
Well when I was a young man my mama said to me
Son stay out of trouble just leave the lawman be
But I ignored her warning and now a man is dead
Should have stayed on the farm and worked a plow instead
But my time is running out
I can hear the lawman shout
We’ve got him cornered up ahead
It won’t be long till he’s
Just through the holler I hear their horses run
And it won’t be long till my outlaw days are done
If I could tell you I didn’t do no wrong
Then I wouldn’t be on the wrong end of a gun
But my time is running out
I can hear the lawman shout
We’ve got him cornered up ahead
It won’t be long till he’s
I hope you’ve heard the words I’ve said
It won’t be long till I’m