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What does one do when the posse, a wild cat, and the devil himself are coming for you? The Tough Get Going is Kaufman’s personal sequel to I Shot the Sheriff and written in a fully western style with some native American influences in the drums and vocals.

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NARRATOR: While Cliff West was making his escape the sheriff got himself bandaged up and his story straight. This is wha t he told his new deputies, his posse:
SHERIFF: Alright Spencer Brothers you are the best trackers in this county and that’s why you’ve been deputized. But when you track down Cliff back off and let the gascorps deputies do the work they knew how to take care of. To you gascorps boys this is what I gotta say: Cliff West has no next of kin and he owes a lot of money, a whole lot of money to the county. I think you can put two and two together and bring him back the right way.
NARRATOR: Cliff was moving fast on his mountain bike. And he heard the horses coming up from afar. He knew if he could last long enough he’d eventually tired tire out the horses but as he hit some rocks on a steep grade he lost he lost traction and fell to the bottom of the ravine.

Song- Tough Get Goin':
There's a mountain lion on your tail
In the sky the turkey buzzards sail
and your water's starting to run low
and you're not sure which way to go
oh no!

The tough get goin'
You'd better get goin'

Seems a thousand years since yesterday
and the Devil is coming for his pay
Your troubles can not be undone
By that bullet left inside your Gun
oh, oh!

The tough get goin'
You'd better get goin'
If you could turn back time you know you would
A wish like that won't do you any good
You know you could have took the other path
Instead you face the posse's dreadful wrath

At last you've had some time to clear you mind
You left that tired horse along behind
And the posse boys fell dropped in your lap
Just in time to spring that deadly trap

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from The Complete Requiem for the Rogue - A Modern Western Opera, released August 3, 2019
Narration & dialog by Dan Kaufman
Composed by Dan Kaufman
Engineered by Pyata Penedo
Bass, Guitar, Harmonica, Vocals: Dan Kaufman
Drums: David Nuding
Mandolin: Tim Connell
Pyata Penedo: Percussion, Vocals

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Dan Kaufman uses his baritone voice, rhythm guitar, and harmonica to deliver western-style rock with a message.

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