David Crosby Cowboy Movie Lyrics

Cowboy Movie Lyrics

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







( Guerrilla Music/BMI)