Flatlanders Indian Cowboy lyrics

Indian Cowboy by Flatlanders

Indian Cowboy lyrics

If you ever go out to the circus 
Where the Wallendas walk on the wire 
I'll tell you a tale to remember 
When the white horses leap rings of fire 

It was a cold night in Oklahoma 
The show was about to begin 
The animals they were all restless 
When the star horse broke from her pen 

Now she was a mare of high spirit 
Like a whore on a Saturday night 
Just kickin' and buckin' past the men that were 
brushin' 
The elephants lyin' on their sides 
Now close to the tent sat a lantern 
That was dangerously close to the hay 
That mare headed straight for that lantern
That some fool had left there by mistake 

Then up comes an Indian Cowboy 
And his lasso whirles throught the air 
In the full dead middle of danger 
He ropes that runaway mare 

Now the elephants raised up their trumpets 
And one of them broke from her chain
Stampeded that Indian Cowboy 
Who had just saved the big top from flames 

So if you ever go out to the circus 
Where the Wallendas walk on the wire 
Just remember that Indian Cowboy 
When the white horses leap rings of fire

Remember that Indian Cowboy 
When the white horses leap rings of fire