Cowboy Movie

Me and my good partners

We were riding back to our camp

We were feeling very fine

The air was clear and slightly damp

We were riding back to have ourselves a party

To celebrate the robbin' of the train

We were talkin' kind of low and lazy

'Bout not havin' to go out soon again

You know we hadn't been back at 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

Sayin' somethin' here ain't exactly right

Quick, grabbed some of our hardware

Stumbled out of our home

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, smilin' 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

Now, Eli, he's our fastest gunner

He's kinda mean and young from the South

He said, "Fat Albert, you're getting kinda old and weird now

You better get your twelve gauge or shut your mouth, yeah"

And I did, oh, you know I did

Now Eli and The Duke, they got down to it

They each wanted that Indian girl for their own

When they finally got around to askin' her

You know, she said she'd come to take young Billy home

Eli said he'd kill young Billy

And kill The Duke and probably me too, yeah

The Indian girl, she said, "go ahead now and do it"

I said, "stop it" and she bit my thumb nearly clean through, yeah

And when they finally started to break down the door

Yeah, I smeared my face up with blood from my thumb, yeah

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 dyin' out in Albuquerque

I must be the sorriest sight you ever saw

You know the reason I'm the only man that's here to tell it

You know that Indian girl, she wasn't an Indian, she was the law