Chords with lyrics
Indian Cowboy
By: Townes van Zandt
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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