Townes Van Zandt – Indian Cowboy (Guitar)

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If you ever go out to the circus

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Where the Wallendas walk on the wire

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I'll tell you a tale to remember

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When the white horses leap rings of fire

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It was a cold night in Oklahoma

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The show was about to begin

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The animals they were all restless

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When the star-horse she broke from her pen

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Well, she was a mare of high spirits

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Like a whore on a Saturday night

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Just a-kickin' and a-buckin' while the men were a-brushin'

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The elephants lined on the side

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Now close to the tent sat a lantern

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It was dangerously close to the hay

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That mare headed straight for that lantern

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Some fool had left there by mistake

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Then up jumps an Indian Cowboy

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And his lasso he throws through the air

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Smack-dab in the middle of danger

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He ropes the runaway mare

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And the elephants raised up their trumpets

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And one of them broke from her chains

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Stampeded that Indian Cowboy

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Who just saved the big-top from flames

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If you ever go out to the circus

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Where the Wallendas walk on the wire

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Remember that Indian Cowboy

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When the white horses leap rings of fire