The Ballad of the Pale Faced Old Cowboy

He crossed the Atlantic with pride on his breath Looking for free land he don't wanna pay rent The trees and expanses his empire awaits He started tearing it down on that very first day He rarely made friends among local faces Had to cheat and connive to finagle good graces His God and his guns, his germs make you dizzy He can kill you with bullets, he can kill you with whiskey Let's say adios to the pale faced old cowboy He's been in the saddle forever it seems We'll say adios to the pale faced old cowboy For most it's a nightmare while he lives out his dreams The soil it was hard and his crops had demands So he filled up his fields with black and brown hands In the hist'ry of Egypt he read to the page Where you can't build no pyr'mids with a minimum wage All the while thinkin he's an enlightened soul From his roomy back porch watch his property toil He writes declarations and bills of his rights While freely exchanging in African lives Let's say adios to the pale faced old cowboy He's been in the saddle forever it seems We'll say adios to the pale faced old cowboy For most it's a nightmare while he lives out his dreams The land he felt promised soon became crowded With new foreign-born paupers, his prospects were clouded So he pushed o'er mountains his sights on the west To start theivin and stealin destiny manifest Shawnee or Choctaw, Comanche or Crow He won't leave you in peace wherever you go He don't the difference between Piute or Sioux He'll grab your land, grab your children, grab the buffalo too Let's say adios to the pale faced old cowboy He's been in the saddle forever it seems We'll say adios to the pale faced old cowboy For most it's a nightmare while he lives out his dreams Now he drills in the ground and he smokes up the sky And the water tastes rusty in the wells that ain't dry Heat waves get long and the winters get shorter Ship his kids off to Mars when this world is over After all of these years of victory and glory He honestly thinks he's the victim of the story To give up the reins he won't volunteer So rip em away while you sing it out clear Let's say adios to the pale faced old cowboy He's been in the saddle forever it seems We'll say adios to the pale faced old cowboy For most it's a nightmare while he lives out his dreams