It was dark and I was driving down a lonely texas road   The night was hot and sleep pulled at my eyes   I was thinking bout the wild times and the women that I'd had   The deceitful things I'd done and those lies         When standin' in the shadows at the side of the road   Stood the figure of a withered old man   He wore a black bandana a ropin' stetson hat   With a two inch scarlet hat band      He held his wrinkled hand up as a sign to shut 'er down   So I pulled over and stopped at his side   He opened up the door slid in and sat down   And said my ain't it hot tonight      I studied this old man and it seemed mighty strange   For him to be out here all alone   And then he started talking and he told me many things   Of times that both of us had known      He told me of the wild life and the women that he'd known   How none of them had ever meant a thing   He told me of a black night much the same as this   Of the strange and awesome things he'd seen   A man beside the road had raised his hand   And flagged him down so he stopped and let him in   That stranger told him stories that I am hearing now   Bout the wild times and all the sin      And the car got cold and clamy and this old man looked at me   He said boy I've come here for you   Your days of wicked sinnin' have come to an end   As a mortal on this earth you are through      Then his eyes got red and firey as he took his stetson off   To reveal his evil horns shiney and black   My God the fear came o'er and my senses were all lost   I fought with him until we finally crashed      Next day they found the car at the bottom of the draw   The young cowboy was found beside the wreck   The car had been consumed by fire   But the cowboy had no marks   Except the smokin' pitchfork brand upon his neck