Rocking Horse Cowboy (1976)

a horse Cowboy well there's not many good Cowboys no more Cowboy life since I was 12 about 12 years old got kicked out of school got a little Rowdy little little ony I guess and so I've been cowboying all my life I don't know anything else I'd rather do for [Music] hey little rocking horse Cowboy a cowboy you will be you've been wishing dreaming bragging and boasting to Sweet sweet a a cowboy you will be you've been telling tidy a cowboy you will be you pack your tra and Sack and soon beond your way to free Happy Day right beneath the Sun [Music] he got all he's got all in the game right look at [Music] that guys there from different parts of the country all over you get the bull shoot back and forth 20 years Dr coffee and sometimes B more boy have a bottle of whiskey sneak back and have a few drinks s around and play cards maybe to I got breakfast time you know again a little bit and and you know what whatever man had he had $5 or maybe $10 or I've seen some old boys lose $50 you know they had a little money in the pocket maybe there sometimes that cause little trouble and he try to get it back but it just didn't work out nowadays I seem like the guys you know I don't know they either want to jump up and go to town or they don't want to be sociable like used to [Music] that's [Music] n [Music] you've been telling tiny a you'll pack your traveling sack and you'll soon be on your way to those free and Happy Days riding beneath the sun you've been telling tiny me you'll ride a wild red Mustang then you'll wear I swe your learn to say howy get up and you've been telling tiny Amy that you'll chew Red Man from a plug and you spit on buz bug grow curly whiskers tell time from the [Music] Sun really I I can't do as good as I could course age has got me and you know I just can't get around of course now like now I know I know I can't you know what I mean uh my legs and everything had been broke up so much that I haven't got very good legs under anymore handling all kinds of horses and cattle you know why you get busted up before you know it by God you know a man has worked all his life while it it's kind he's got in spunk at all it kind of goes against him to lay around and go on this wildfire and stuff like that just uh depend on somebody else well I may I may come to that but not as long as I can work I want I'm going to have to stay with it CU you know tell tell the truth that's all I know softly whisper sweet sweet you're from the stormy sea walk on twinkling stars and and soore with whistling WIS Sly whispered sweet sweet Amy you'll dream brand new dream and change your Wishing Star cuz you'd hate to ever a crippled cowboy with a broken this Mark on life be honest with you I've been in the city you know go to Los Ang that's I so really the big city I was ever I go there once in a while you know used to I've been there for years but anyway I that the people like God I don't know they walk by you and they won't give you no room or Crist don't mind you you got to be pretty good on his feet you get run over and uh going across the street in the damn traffic why fell does you know make a mistake going across the light why Dam jump between the cars well that that's not for me I went down there one time and I just got in I went down on the bus so I met up with the guy I sitting in this restaurant and we got talking I told him that uh I just kind of pass some time away he said well let's go up to my room a while he says he said well he said well might well play a little poker and I had a p sh something like these I got on the pockets inside and over 45 in there so uh and a little bit there was another guy coming into room and he sat down and he he got me in this and I had a few dollars in my pocket not very much maybe five $10 so one guy says uh throw your shfs in I said no I said I don't throw the them in for anything so they'd already got the money you know so one of the guy he started reach for him he said I said throw him in I said I said leave him alone no look like I said I ain't going to I'm not going to met them well I had for 45 I'm sure I was going to lose that so he made it pass at me I just lock back over bed and I come up I let him have right over the head with this 45 and my had didn't take it out there was in my sha my sha and knocked him across the bed and this other guy made it run for me I knocked him down and after I just reached over while was both down and I just reached over and got what money is on the bed some wasn't mine so most of it was so I got up walked out and walked out on the street and no country boys got to be awful careful in the city a telling [Music] you well it's they don't have the work to do like they used to they don't work they used to take care of the cattle ride more among the cattle and watch the cows and the Cavs now I lots of time they don't know what they're looking for and just ride by a car they don't know sick ride by a car and know what she is when when she is sick and used to the we ride through the cows all day long well it was a just a day's work put in the days day work with the cattle now the they Rite to them and just well they just don't do the work they used to do well they don't know how in the first place lot of the boys and times that uh you got you see a cow landay you know you know your cattle while you know there's something wrong now most of the boys today they don't know don't know cattle well enough to to understand that [Music] oh [Music] h [Music] years ago a man used to come up go out and that gather gather gather cattle just something like this we doing right now but they had rope CRS know just run them off in a bunch just run them up in a bunch and the couple Riders going there and other other guys hold them hold them up you know and man two or three men go there two Ropers or three Ropers what whatever they use and uh rope them and drag them back out to the far just well practic they do now only there's more more cattle and and better hands than they are today today they they got CRS and trucks you know to to go out to the job and it's not not near the wor it used to [Music] be you've been telling tiny Amy you ride a wild red Mustang then you sweaty learn to say howy get up and W you've been telling tiny Amy that you chew Red Man's from a plug and you'll spit on bug bug grow curly whiskers tell time from the [Music] Sun Well working on CC ran there and we had me out in Camp I out there about 15 miles out right out on the [Music] desert and it rained and snowed and everything just froze over you know all the sickles ickles hanging on the well on the stage bu just like look like Christmas you know that wind blowing I ride about make a round trip about well say from 18 to 20 miles anyway sometimes further you know I well I get out there about 7 or 8:00 anyway and it take me anyway you know sometimes all how much how far I have to go back I get cold feet get cold hands get cold and so I'd stop build me a little far I thought well I warm up a little bit had a good heavy Mac andol and I wrapped up pretty pretty good I can tell you right away and see a bunch of cows back over and shove them back and look on make my rounds little further and find some more I have to get get a cold well you know you don't realize how cold you can get just R but you get Loop and probably go kind of long shot or Loop you know it's kind of relax you warm you a little bit then going get to move these old cows get cold your hands and feet get cold to get on build another fire it's miserable I can tell you [Music] [Music] well after the drive there I would go to Windslow Flagstaff mostly Windslow and stay all night have a a good time get into a fight going to the you know the [Music] [Music] house them days you could have a good time you going with a few dollars well say maybe much way you be shot in another wall but man the well you have draw can you have a draw you know take a draw finish out the the party they'd run me out of town about daylight and that' be it but in the last 15 years I've slowed down no lot years ago I'd go to town get drunk ride in a horseback stay all night now all I do is go to town have a few drinks play the slot machines and go down cross tracks once in a while come back get in time for breakfast and go to [Music] work it's hard to get a job on the on the C Ranch now it's now the ranches is well they changed but kind of bunch of dude ranches now and it's kind of rocking horse cowboy cowboy is kind of well they not experience the main reason anything you know a lot of lot of ranches why you just all they give a damn for you is get what you can out of you and well when the work is done while you're done aoy you you've been me cowy you will be you pack your Trav back soon be on your way to clear Happy [Music] Days the sofly whisper sweet sweet Amy you dream new dreams and change your wish and star you ha to ever broken I never had a real home all my days a cowboy only bunk houses cow camps I really never had no family to speak of and really no one but my my myself and that's what keeps me traveling around nobody look far to only myself and really a man with he's a cowboy or what he is with it uh he's got someone to look forward to he's got something to to hold him down but traveling around you'll never have it [Music] well I've had quite a life my time I've Cowboy for the last 50 years all I got out of it is little money in the bank saddle B Spurs shafts no car but all I got show hard [Music] [Laughter] a crippled cowboy with a broken car you'll never be [Music]