They're looking for some hired guns on the Texas border
   To shoot 'em all down if they try to cross over the water
   And they've got their old white hoods and the same old orders
   To keep the dark sons away from their daughters
   The nights they came on horses
   Are long gone with the wind
   Now they're passing out the torches
   And they're coming back again
  
   There's a shotgun blast
   There's a secret sign
   It's not a candle burning and it's not a Sunday night
   There's a fire on the cross
   There's a fire on the cross tonight
  
   There wasn't any sound but it felt like sudden thunder
   Two boards nailed together and burning bright
   He was walking by the window when he saw it
   Now he wonders
   Just what he's got to do to make him see
   He just want to be brothers
   The nights they came on horses
   Are long gone with the wind
   Now they're passing out the torches
   And they're coming back again
  
   There's a shotgun blast
   There's a secret sign
   It's not a candle burning and it's not a Sunday night
   There's a fire on the cross
   There's a fire on the cross tonight