The Cowboy and The Last Red Man

Larry Cordle (615) 830-4765
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6. The Cowboy and The Last Red Man
Songwriter(s): Jim Rushing/Leslie Satcher
Publisher(s): BMG Rights Management, Inc. ASCAP
Island Bound Music/EMI Blackwood, BMI

VERSE 1:
Well granddad was the last
Great cowboy in our town
Jack was the last red man
Every morning half past five
They’d hold council side by side
At the truck stop coffee counter
Out on highway 35

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They talked about the old days
How uncle arthur filled their joints
Jack was known to rap an arrowhead
Against his cup to make a point

Chorus:
He’d say we used to shoot each other
Now we just shoot the bull
Mother earth has made us brothers
But her methods were so cruel
Oh they never smoked a peace pipe
But they smoked a common brand
That’s how I knew the cowboy
And the last red man


VERSE 2:
Now granddad’s saddle rests
Upon a rafter in the barn
Covered with his chaps and the dust
And Jacks upon the mesa
Asleep in holy ground
Next to that old paint
That in life he dearly loved

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Oh one was hand tooled leather
One was buffalo and flint
They made the old west even better
And I cried the day they went

Chrous 2:
I knew they used to shoot each other
As I watched them shoot the bull
Mother earth had made them brothers
But her methods were so cruel
Oh they never smoked a piece pipe
But they smoked a common brand
That’s how I knew the cowboy
And the last red man