Born
in 1838 in Crawford County, Arkansas,
first black deputy US Marshal to enforce the law.
Appointed by Judge Isaac Parker in 1875
to root out all those desperados and maybe
bring them back alive.
Bass Reeves was the law.
Put that in your craw.
In that vast lawless land,
Bass Reeves was the man.
Fourteen fugitives met their end
by tangling with old Bass.
With a rifle and a six gun in his hands,
damn that man
was fast.
Never got hurt,
never got wounded,
though once they shot his hat.
Not good news for the fella that done
it and the trouble that that begat.
Bass
Reeves was the law.
Put that in your craw.
In that vast lawless land,
Bass Reeves was the man.
There were many bad farmings in the
western district of the tribal territory.
Like Bill
Doolin,
Rufus Buck,
and the Dalton Boys bound for glory.
Bass Reeves rode the Texas plains
and the Oklahoma hills.
No owl hoot could ever escape his outlaw tracking skills.
Bass Reeves was the law.
Put that in your craw.
In that vast lawless land,
Bass Reeves was the man.
Bass Reeves was the law.
Put that in your craw.
In that vast lawless land,
Bass Reeves was the man.
That man was the law.
That man was the law.
That man was the law.
That man was the law.
That man was the law.
That man was the law.
That man was the law.