Chris Ledoux Cowboy And The Hippie Lyrics

Cowboy And The Hippie Lyrics

On a highway thru the desert beneath an over pass



Sat two hikers just watchin' cars go by



Now one was wearin' sandles with straggly matted hair



Rose colored glasses for his eyes







Now the other was a cowboy he'd been down on his luck



Lost his money at the Tuson rodeo



And he sat beside what remained of his trusty pickup truck



And like the hippie now he's thumbin' down the road







Some folks don't realize that it's a well know fact



Cowboy's and hippies ain't never got along



Was it just coincidence or some weird act of fate



That brought these two together on the road







They sat there without talking while the morning sun rose high



When a hot desert breeze commenced to blow



And the fragrance of the incense and six weeks without a bath



Finally drifted down and reached the cowboy's nose







Well man that really did it he couldn't take no more



And he tied his old bandana around his face



He said you greasy stinking hippie you'd put a skunk to shame



Boy you're a discrace to the human race







Now the hippie just sat there and gave the cowboy a smile



Said man you don't smell so sweet yourself



Well I'm not too sure what that green stuff is on your boots and on your
jeans



But whew it's enough to make a buzzard belch







The cowboy said now listen I ain't gonna that that stuff from you



No long haired freaks gonna talk to me that way get up



Well the hippie said, now hold on man, what good's that gonna do



You know fighting never settles nothing anyway







Now we both love our freedom and we'll answer to no man



And you've heard it said to thine own self be true



We're just a couple of free spirts drifting across the land



Doing exactly what we want to do 







Said now me I got my things and you you got yours



And I don't see why we can't get along



They say the closest thing to freedom is livin' on the road



In a country were freedom's almost gone







Well the cowboy, he just stood up there and never said a word



But you know this hippie sure made a lot of sense



They shook hands and parted as a truck pulled to the side



And the hippie he went East and I went West