Lyr Req: Man Walks Among Us (Marty Robbins)

Subject: Man walks among us
From: alison
Date: 21 May 98 - 01:09 AM

Hi all you C&W fans out there,

I'm looking for this song which I heard when I was very small on a Marty Robbins tape.

Wasn't able to find it at "Cowpie".

Thanks

Slainte

Alison

Subject: RE: Man walks among us
From: Joe Offer
Date: 21 May 98 - 05:21 AM

Well, Alison, here is a bigger collection of Marty Robbins lyrics than I expected to find, but it doesn't have your song. Chances are good that Gene will know the whole thing by heart, so let's give him a day or so to get around to posting it. Otherwise, I can transcribe it for you.

Man walks among us, be still, be still.
Man walks among us, be still.

-Joe Offer-

Subject: RE: Man walks among us
From: alison
Date: 21 May 98 - 08:44 AM

Hi Joe,

Yes, that's the one. I can remember a fair bit of it, but not all. For anyone else out there it begins, (I think)

"Warm are the winds on the desert, A ?whirlwind is dancing around, I stop to survey all the ?wonder that's here, When a shadow moves out 'cross the ground."

Any takers?

Slainte

Alison

Subject: RE: Man walks among us
From: Joe Offer
Date: 21 May 98 - 03:13 PM

Hi, Alison - Gene Graham says he'll post the lyrics later today. Say, are you off on a country tangent now? All you Celts seem to be doing that lately. What do you know that we don't know?
-Joe Offer, feeling mischievous again-

Subject: Lyr Add: MAN WALKS AMONG US (Marty Robbins)^^
From: Gene
Date: 21 May 98 - 06:46 PM

MAN WALKS AMONG US
Words and music by Marty Robbins

Warm are the winds on the desert
A whirlwind is dancing around
I stopped to survey all the beauty
That's here when a shadow moves out 'cross the ground
It's an Eagle that circles above me
And he screams to his friends on the hill
Stay close together, move not a feather
Man walks among us, be still, be still
Man walks among us, be still.

CHORUS
Twenty feet high in the side of a Cactus
I see a hole where the Butcher bird stays
If mortals could choose and if Heaven should ask us
Here's where I'd want to spend all of my days.

Ev'rything hides, but I see them
I've spotted an old mother Quail
I look close and see, looking right back at me
The eyes of a young Cottontail
I see a Coyote sneaking
As he crawls through the brush on the hill
And the Eagle screams down, stay close to the ground
Man walks among us, be still, be still
Man walks among us, be still.

Soon will be gone, all the desert
Cities will cover each hill
Today will just be a fond memory
Man walks among us, be still, be still
Man walks among us, be still.

CHORUS^^

Subject: RE: Man walks among us
From: alison
Date: 21 May 98 - 08:40 PM

Hi Joe,

I hope Mischievous is enjoying all this groping he or she is getting. Lucky old mischievous..........(grin)

Thanks Gene. That's exactly how I remembered it.

I haven't gone all country, Joe. I just happened to see that someone had sung it at a folk club recently and it brought back memories of holidays as a child when Dad would be singing along with Marty Robbins in the car. This one always stuck in my mind, (along with "Big Iron").

Slainte

alison

Subject: RE: Man walks among us
From: Jon W.
Date: 22 May 98 - 10:39 AM

Big Iron? Is that about golf? Ever since Greg Norman, that's all you Aussies think about.

Jon W. also feeling a little mischievous (but not the same one that Joe is feeling)

Subject: RE: Man walks among us
From: Art Thieme
Date: 22 May 98 - 10:52 AM

Bob Nolan, from the original Sons Of The Pioneers, did this song on a fine solo LP (Elektra I think) right before he passed away. Like Marty, Bob had atruly distinct voice. Marty sang backup on the chorus on this cut. Art

Subject: RE: Man walks among us
From: alison
Date: 22 May 98 - 09:16 PM

Hi Jon,

'fraid not (can't stand the game myself). It's good song about a Arizona Ranger with a big iron on his hip, who went after an outlaw (Texas Red).

But hey, what do I know he might have shot him with a golf club.

I'm about to show my ignorance.... what's a butcher bird?

PS Think I'll change my name to Mischievous, I feel like I'm missing out on something!!

Slainte

Alison

Subject: RE: Man walks among us
From: Will
Date: 23 May 98 - 01:44 PM

From completeness, the lyrics to "Big Iron" are at the link that Joe posted above.