It's Rodeo Week in Redding - so we've been pulling out all the cowboy songs.
We're lucky to live in Cottonwood, where we look out on wide open spaces, rodeo bulls, horses and cowboys. I was watching the local cowboys working the rodeo stock one afternoon when I started writing this song. I definitely had the easier job.
Lyrics below.
It's available as a free download on our website: http://www.stillmarried.net/.
The Last Cowboy in Shasta County
words and music © Erin Coombs Friedman
He'll take coffee as day breaks over Lassen
Saddle up to the tune of a Gene Autry song
There's a full day of work waitin' out in the pasture
For an old man, a paint horse and a Hangin' Tree dog
chorus
He's the Last Cowboy in Shasta County
Keeping the wild in the West while he can
He'll ride out his seasons with red manzanita
Black Oak and blue skies
And the last of the gold Shasta sand
At the edges, his mem'ries grow misty
Like the yellowing photos of old rodeos
The legend survives on good rides and good whiskey
And a promise he made in good faith long ago
repeat chorus
Gone are the days rough and rowdy
Hard times they carve ragged lines tough to cross
But hell will see hailstones before the last cowboy
Will piss on the fire and call in the dogs
1 comment:
Nice, it reminds me of my late father-in-law. We have a very similiar picture of him on his horse after a cattle drive.
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