Subject: Lyr Add: WILLIE (Robert Earl Keen, Jr.)
From:
katlaughing
Date: 30 Sep 07 - 01:04 AM
Jim got most of it, but here's the entire lyrics, with unclear parts in parantheses. Maybe someone else will be able to hear it more clearly:
WILLIE
Robert Earl Keen, Jr.
Hanging on the wall just like a thousand times I've been there,
A picture of a field of dandelions,
And a young stud-colt a-following some old cowboy on a brood mare,
Bound to make it home by dinnertime.
There's a thunderhead a-coming from the west and he's sure thinking
The rain would do this dusty dirt some good,
But it ain't a cowboy's weather, so he nudges his old faithful,
And turns around to call out to the stud:
"Come on, Willie. There's a black cloud coming yonder.
The devil beats his wife with a silver chain.
Come on, Willie, boy, can't you hear the thunder?
Your ma and me don't travel well in rain."
It ain't nothing much to look at, just a print I got from Grandma,
A real west river cowgirl in her day
And sometimes I need religion since the old girl's gone before me
And that's when I can hear the cowboy say:
"Come on, Willie. There's a black cloud coming yonder.
The devil beats his wife with a silver chain.
Come on, Willie, boy, can't you hear the thunder?
Your ma and me don't travel well in rain."
Now the western (theater?) has become another sideshow
A'sellin' out the bygone days gone by
And whenever we know it's rainin', we can hear it (call/pour?) out thunder
We can see it pour out clouds up in the sky.
"Come on, Willie. There's a black cloud coming yonder.
The devil beats his wife with a silver chain.
Come on, Willie, boy, can't you hear the thunder?
Your ma and me don't travel well in rain." (repeat last line)
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