Cowboy Movie
(专辑: If I Could Only Remember My Name - 1971)
Me and my good partners We were riding back to our camp We were feeling very fine And the
air was clear and slightly damp And we were riding back to have ourselves a
party To celebrate the
robbing of the
train. We were talking kind of low and lazy About not having to go out soon again You know we hadn't been back home two hours We heard a
hawk cry out in the
night And you know that's a
signal from young Billy, who's our sentry He's saying something here ain't exactly right So we quick grabbed some of our hardware Stumbled out of our home In two minutes flat we had found her An Indian girl all alone And Eli said, "Let's take her back to the
cabin" I
said, "You don't know she might be the
law, yeah" He said, smiling kind of nasty, "It ain't too damn likely she'll beat me to the
draw." As we were walking back through the
darkness, I
heard the
Duke, he's our dynamiter, say, He said, "What's your name, sweet little Indian girl?" She said, "Raven." and she looked away. Right then I
didn't trust her, no and I
said so, oh no. Now, Eli, he's our fastest gunner He's kind of mean and young from the
South He said, "Fat Albert, you're getting kind of old and weird now." "You'd better get your twelve gauge shot gun right out." Now Eli and the
Duke they got down to it They each wanted the
Indian girl for their own But when they finally got around to asking her You know she said she'd come to take young Billy home Eli said he'd kill young Billy He'd kill the
Duke, and probably me too, yeah The
Indian girl said, "Go ahead now do it" I
said "Stop it", and she bit my thumb nearly clean through And when they finally started to break down the
door I
smeared my face up with blood from my thumb I
laid down on the
floor and played real good possum You know I'm crazy but I
ain't real dumb Now I'm dying here in Albuquerque I
must be the
sorriest sight you ever saw You know the
reason I'm the
only man here to tell it You know that Indian girl, she wasn't an Indian she was the
law