Sitting around with The Chainsaw when he's holding a guitar, can be a mind-expanding experience. The guy is an incredible guitar player, and very funny. The problem is, he doesn't think he's either. One day, Chainsaw was doing his best "Gothic-Western" chord progression, and singing along just something that came out of his ... beautiful mind. I jumped off the couch, and told him he should record it. He said, "Nah, it's too stupid. No one will get it." I then challenged him to recall any other music we had written that wasn't stupid. He stood up, we walked into the other room and recorded "The Lonely Horseman" on a boombox in one take. The song is now a staple on country jukeboxes all over the southwest, and a funny joke to the rest of the band. We played it live a few times, much to the disbelief of the audience. It was great.
Lyrics:
I'm the Lonely Horseman
I've got my pistol
I'm just trying to be
Somebody besides
A Lonely Horseman
Got my gun at my side
I'm just trying to be
Somebody besides
This Lonely Horseman of mine
Lonely Horseman of mine
I'm a Lonely Horseman
I've got my lonely horse
We're both just trying to be
Something besides
A Lonely Horseman
Lonely Horseman
Lonely Horseman on the ride
Yeah...
I'm a Lonely Horseman
I got my lonely horse
I'm just trying to be
Something besides
This Lonely Horseman
Lonely Horseman
On the ride
On the ride
God deliver me from this ride
A Lonely Horseman
Just trying to be something besides
This Lonely Horseman
Horseman
Lonely Horseman
Lonely Horseman
On the ride
Face down in the mud
Dying like a dog
I'll never see my kid
Grow up to kill that hog
Face down in the mud
That sucker stole my shirt
I want it back, baby
I want it back.
I'm a lonely horseman
Got my lonely horse
Trying to be somebody
But this Lonely Horseman
Lonely Horseman
Lonely Horseman
Horseman
Horseman
Horseman
Lonely Horseman...
30 окт 2017
