Cowboy Movie Lyrics - Singles - David Crosby

Me and my good partners we were riding back to our camp 

We were feeling very fine air was clear and slightly damp 

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, oh yeah 

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, oh 

So we 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, smiling kind of nasty 

"It ain't too damn likely she'll beat me to the draw", Oh yeah 

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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 or shut your mouth and ass now? 

And I [Incomprehensible] 

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 

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And when they finally started to break down the door 

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, oh no 

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, oh