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Elbert Lee - The Cowboy from Boston lyrics
He played an old fiddle made over in Europe Recited the poets and quoted the bards. Rode out of the east on a sway Appaloosa... The cowboy from Boston with a sleeve full of cards. With a hey diddle ho riding high in the saddle, Pear handled pistol and a masters degree. He came three thousand miles to the streets of Seattle To whet his fine whistle on some fresh Chinese tea. Sort of down east goes west to meet far east you see. A good man or bad depends on just who was talking, He bluffed like a champion or he lied like a snake. The ladies all swooned when he twirled his mustaches and snuck out the back door to bring him some cake. With a hey diddle ho riding over the prairee, Fancy pants holdters and real silver spurs. The music he fiddled was so fine and airy, looking up at the sky he could name all the stars... he knew all his history and the generals and wars. Well he rode down the coast to the west Texas border, to the Mexican desert where the summer was fierce. He got all caught up in the good revolution and he rode at the side of an old man named Bierce. With a viva Zapata he raised a loud holler, his gentleman's clothing all spattered with mud. He shot like a bandit but he talked like a scholar, the cowboy from Boston all hellbent for blood. The cowboy from Boston won't come to no good. Not far from Houston he stopped a stray bullet. The last words he said lifted right off the page. It was something he'd learned from the poet of Avon: how "all men are players and life is a stage." It was viva la vida, that was how life had planned it, there's no one can say once that hand rolls the bones. He talked like a scholar but he shot like a bandit, The cowboy from Boston laying under some stones. The cowboy from Boston come a long way from home. The cowboy from Boston come a long way from home. |
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