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Lyrics for Old Red by Marty Robbins:
| | | Artist: | Marty Robbins |
| | Album: | Unknown | | Track: | Old Red | | | | Date Added: | 18/10/2007 | | Views: | 111 | | | | Lyrics: | Old Red was one of the orniest yet
I'd seen at the big rodeo
He'd bite you and kick you
and stomp out your life,
Old Red had never been rode
Meaner than sin,wild as the
wind
That blew on the Montana plains
Old Red was one of the last of it's kind
And
wasn't about to be tamed
From Idaho,a young cowboy came
To ride at the big
rodeo
The young cowboy's name was Billy McLean.
And Billy had never been
thrown
The meanest desire filled young Billy's heart
To ride this old outlaw called
Red
He drew him one day and I heard Billy say
"I'll ride him or drop over
dead"
Old Red was waiting down there in the shoot
He was kicking and stomping
about
Billy climbed into the saddle with ease
He yelled turn him loose let us
out
Old Red came out with his head on the ground
His back hooves were touching his
nose
Trying to get rid of the man on his back
But the man went wherever he
goes
Billy was racking Old Red with his spurs
From the tail to the tip of his
chin
He was doing right well,but Billy could tell
This outlaw would never give
in
Old Red headed straight for the fence
Suddenly stopping and then
He reared
on his hind legs and fell on his back
Taking poor Billy with him
There was a hush
from the crowd and they knew
That this would be Billies last ride
The saddle horn crushed
Billies chest when he fell
And under Old Red Billy died
Old Red lay still,no more
did he move
The cowboys that seen it could tell
In trying to throw Billy off his
back
Old Red broke his neck when he fell
Out in the west,there's a place where they
rest
This cowboy that's never been thrown
Just one foot away resting there neath the
clay
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