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The Lonesome​/​Gregarious Cowboy

from Fegh Maha by Tripod

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Oh-oh-oh, Oh-oh-oh-ohhhh


Roh! Roh!
Hee!
Roh! Roh!
YAHH!
Roh! Roh!
Hee!

Let me tell a story that was told one time to me, By people who had had it told to them. Tripod: By their fore-fathers...
And their four mothers.

t was a little eight person travelling troupe of story-telling parents
But that's not the focus of the tale.
What's important is the story of a stranger
Who came riding on his horse...
On a dusty trail.

He's embellishing by saying that it was a dusty trail
But I think it's pretty safe to assume
That the road-building methods of the time
Would have been quite crude
To say the least.

Yon: Actually, strictly speaking, to say the least would have been to do this... Yeh.

But you get the idea.

No one knew where he came from
No one knew who he was
But presumably his parents and a few childhood chums
Knew him.

Roh! Roh!
Hee!
Roh! Roh!

Gatesy: YAAH... I won't fucking do it!
Yon: No more!
Gatesy: It's just a little act of mine!

He rode a horse, a great black steed
And Spirit was his name
The horse's name, not the bloke
The finest gambler in the county
He broke all the ladies' hearts
I'm still talking about the horse.

The man rode round performing acts that may have broke the law
Or angered someone in some other way
So subsequently he was inevitably caught up with
By some state- or county-appointed figure of authority
Or local strong man

Gatesy: Roooooar!

Scod: (To Gatesy) Or fuckhead.
Gatesy: (To Scod) Unnecessary.

One fateful day
Or night

Brought before a judge or jury
He may have been put to death
Or he may have escaped In some exciting way
Or boring way
Like a legal loophole

There he goes
Riding into the sun
He dissolves into a vapour as he nears the burning orb

Or maybe it's just a metaphor.

(They argue about the possibilities of this for a while, then conclude...)

Yes, definitely a metaphor!

(Gatesy rides his horse while they sing...)

Tripod: Oo-oh-oh, Oh-oh-oh-ahhhh...

(Yon makes various animal and bird sounds in the background)

YAH!

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from Fegh Maha, released May 3, 2004

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