and he'll do you by oldrottenhead

Oldrottenhead · September 01, 2015, 03:05:23 AM

did this 3 days ago when i realised the countryfest was gonna win. have since completed another two. will hold back on them for now.

He's a lonesome cowboy
riding cross the plains
just a shadow figure
no one knows his name
sleeps beneath the starlight
upon the cold hard ground
eats rattlesnakes for breakfast
and doesn't spit the poison out
he's as mean as a gator
and as hard as nails
you do him wrong
and he'll do you
as wise as the mountains
but dumb as a post
you do him right
and he'll do you
a man of his word
but he don't say much
oh but when he does
you better listen up
he don't suffer fools
tho he's one himself
he doesn't ride
on an abstract plain

and he'll do you

w/m
oldrottenhead

Hook · September 01, 2015, 04:23:02 AM

Spectacular song/story, loads of imagery.
Dig!

bruno · September 01, 2015, 04:55:24 AM

Quote from: Hook on September 01, 2015, 04:23:02 AMSpectacular song/story, loads of imagery.
Dig!

+1. Super cowboy song opener

fenderbender · September 01, 2015, 07:47:37 AM

Great lyrics James
nice acoustic sound------

Tommy

ODH · September 01, 2015, 08:14:10 AM

Nice song, James. I'm starting to see possibilities in this fest I didn't previously.

Mark E Smith has described the Fall's music as Country and Northern. I was all set to make some quip about this being Country and Scottish or some-such. But I couldn't really, didn't fit.