A Town Too Tough to Die – a Tombstone, Arizona song by Tanuki Thunder

Chorus

Boots on the boardwalk and the sun sinkin' low
Stagecoach rollin' by like it's eighteen-eighty-oh
Silver built this town, then the water drowned the mines
But Tombstone kept on kickin' through the hardest of times
Two fires burned the street down, still she's standin' here tonight
Every board's got a story and every story's worth the fight

Chorus

Walk on down Allen Street, girl, don't be shy
Raise one at the Crystal Palace where the legends used to drink
Lean on Big Nose Kate's bar, the one that wouldn't burn
Peek inside the Bird Cage, and then it's on to your next turn
Wild hearts, whiskey nights, and an Arizona sky
Welcome to Tombstone, the town too tough to die
Welcome to Tombstone, the town too tough to die

Verse 2

The Grand Hotel threw a party back in eighteen-eighty
Chandeliers and walnut and the finest folks were there
The Clantons and McLaurys slept there the night before
The O.K. Corral fight that wrote this town's name into lore
Now Big Nose Kate's got the long bar that the fire couldn't take
And there's music every night for heaven and the devil's sake

Chorus

Walk on down Allen Street, girl, don't be shy
Walk on down Allen Street, girl, don't be shy
Raise one at the Crystal Palace where the legends used to drink
Lean on Big Nose Kate's bar, the one that wouldn't burn
Peek inside the Bird Cage, and then it's on to your next turn
Wild hearts, whiskey nights, and an Arizona sky
Welcome to Tombstone, the town too tough to die

Bridge

The Bird Cage opened Christmas week of eighty-one
Fiddles, cigar smoke and singin' till the rising sun
Virgil watched the corner from his window up above
This old town ain't perfect, but she's easy to love

Final Chorus

Walk on down Allen Street, girl, don't be shy
Raise one at the Crystal Palace where the legends used to drink
Lean on Big Nose Kate's bar, the one that wouldn't burn
Peek inside the Bird Cage, and then it's on to your next turn
Wild hearts, whiskey nights, and an Arizona sky
Welcome to Tombstone, the town too tough to die
Yeah, Tombstone, the town too tough to dieus, warm open production