《The Cowboy Christmas Ball (Album Version)》歌词

[00:00:00] The Cowboy Christmas Ball - Michael Martin Murphey

[00:00:06] Way out in West Texas where the Clearfork waters flow

[00:00:10] Where the cattle are a-browsing and them Spanish ponies grow

[00:00:14] Where the northers come a-whistling and the old dust devils roll

[00:00:19] And the prairie dogs are sneezing and freezing from the cold

[00:00:23] Where the lonesome tawny prairies melt into the airy streams

[00:00:28] And the double mountains slumber in the heavenly kind of dreams

[00:00:32] Where the antelope are grazing and the lonesome plovers call

[00:00:36] It was there that I attended the Cowboy Christmas Ball

[00:00:47] The music was a fiddle and a lively tambourine

[00:00:51] And a big bass violin imported by a stage from Abilene

[00:00:55] Now the room was togged-out gorgeous with mistletoe and shawls

[00:01:00] And the candles flickered frescos all around them merry walls

[00:01:05] Well the womenfolk looked lonely and the boys looked kinda treed

[00:01:09] 'Til the leader commenced to yelling

[00:01:11] Hey boys let's all stampede

[00:01:13] And the music started sighing and a-wailing through the hall

[00:01:18] As a kind of introduction to the Cowboy Christmas Ball

[00:01:28] The leader was a feller that come from Swenson's Ranch

[00:01:32] Yep they called him Windy Bill from Little Dead Man's Branch

[00:01:37] When he commenced to holler

[00:01:39] Now fellers stake your pen

[00:01:41] Lock horns with all them heifers and wrestle 'em just like men

[00:01:45] Salute them lovely critters now swing 'em and let 'em go

[00:01:50] And climb the grapevine round and round now hands all do si do

[00:01:54] You mavericks join the roundup just skip the waterfall

[00:01:59] Boy it was getting active at the Cowboy Christmas Ball

[00:02:09] The boys were tolerable skittish and the ladies powerful neat

[00:02:13] That old bass violin music made us jump in with both feet

[00:02:18] That wailing frisky fiddle I never will forget

[00:02:22] And Windy Bill kept singing and I believe I hear him yet

[00:02:27] Oh yes boys chase them squirrels cut 'em to the side

[00:02:31] Doc Hollis to the center now 'cross P Charley's bride

[00:02:35] Purr round you gentle kittens now rope and balance all

[00:02:40] Hey it was getting happy at the Cowboy Christmas Ball

[00:02:50] The dust rose fast and furious and we all just galloped round

[00:02:54] 'Til the scenery got so giddy that Z Bar Dick went down

[00:02:59] We buckled to our partners and told 'em to hold on

[00:03:03] And shook our hooves like lightning until the early dawn

[00:03:07] Don't tell me about cotillions or polkas no siree

[00:03:12] That whirl in Anson City it takes the cake for me

[00:03:16] Oh Bill I won't forget you and I often will recall

[00:03:21] That lively gaited soirée called the Cowboy Christmas Ball

[00:03:25] Oh no I won't forget it

[00:03:28] The Cowboy Christmas Ball

[00:03:34] Woo