[Lyric] Cowboy Movie 2021 Remaster (David Crosby)

[Verse 1]
Me and my good partners
We were riding back to our camp
We were feeling very fine
The air was clear and slightly damp

[Verse 2]
We were riding back to have ourselves a party
To celebrate the robbing of the train
We were talking kind of low and lazy
About not having to go out soon again

[Verse 3]
You know we hadn't been back home two hours
We heard a hawk cry out in the night
And you know that's a signal from young Billy, who's our sentry
Saying something here ain't exactly right

[Verse 4]
We quick grabbed some of our hardware
Stumbled out of our home
Two minutеs flat we had found her
An Indian girl all alone
[Verse 5]
And Eli said, "Lеt's take her back to the cabin"
I said, "You don't know, she might be the law," yeah
He said, smiling kind of nasty
"It ain't too damn likely she'll beat me to the draw"

[Verse 6]
We were walking back through the darkness
I heard the Duke, he's our dynamiter, say
He said, "What's your name, sweet little Indian girl?"
She said, "Raven," and she looked away
Right then I didn't trust her, no
And I said so, oh, no

[Verse 7]
Now, Eli, he's our fastest gunner
He's kind of mean and young from the South
He said, "Fat Albert, you're getting kind of old and weird now
You'd better get your twelve gauge, your shotgun right out," yeah
And I did
Know I

[Verse 8]
Now Eli and the Duke, they got down to it
They each wanted the Indian girl for their own
When they finally got around to asking her
You know she said she'd come to take young Billy home
Oh, no, no, no
[Verse 9]
Eli said he'd kill young Billy
He'd kill the Duke and, and probably me too, yeah
The Indian girl, she said, "Go ahead now, do it"
I said, "Stop it," and she bit my thumb nearly clean through, yeah

[Verse 10]
And when they finally started to break down the door, yeah
I smeared my face up with blood from my thumb, yeah
I laid down on the floor and played real good possum
You know I'm crazy but I ain't real dumb, oh, no

[Instrumental Bridge]

[Verse 11]
Now I'm dying here in Albuquerque
I must be the sorriest sight you ever saw
You know the reason I'm the only man that's here to tell it
You know that Indian girl, she wasn't an Indian, she was the law, oh