Lyr Req: Coyotes (Bob McDill)

Subject: unusual cowboy song
From: BK
Date: 06 May 01 - 09:27 PM

I know this ain't in the DB; at a cowboy poetry & song meeting last week-end a guy sang a song abt an ol' cowboy that just disappears, being out of synch w/the modern world.

the chorus has a part which loosely mimics the night sounds of the coyote, something vaguely like: oohyip, ooh-yip, ooh/odalooh-yip,oh-yipa-hoo/ooh-yip, ooh-yip, ooh/odalooh-yip,oh-yipa-hoo.

The rest of the chorus lists various things or people gone from the western scene: Long horns are gone, drovers are gone, comanchees are gone, Outlaws are gone/Geronimo is gone, Sam Bass is gone, the Lion is gone, the Red Wolf is gone....

If anybody knows the Name & Author of this song & where I might find the words, it's the 'Catters..

Thanx, BK

Subject: Lyr Add: COYOTES (Bob McDill)
From: catspaw49
Date: 06 May 01 - 09:35 PM

Could this be it?

COYOTES

Was a cowboy I knew in south Texas,
his face was burned deep by the sun,
Part history, part sage, part Mexican;
he was there when Pancho Villa was young

And he'd tell you a tale of the old days,
when the country was wild all around
Sit out under the stars of the Milky Way
and listen when the coyotes howl.

Now the longhorns are gone,
the drovers are gone, the Comanches are gone,
Geronimo's gone, the lion is gone
and the red wolf is gone.

Well, he cursed all the roads and the oil men
and he cursed the automobile,
Said this is no place for an hombre like I am
in this new world of asphalt and steel.

Then he'd look off some place in the distance,
at something only he could see
He'd say "All that's left of the old days
is the damned old coyote and me."

One morning they searched his adobe,
he disappeared without even a word.
But that night as the moon crossed the mountain,
one more coyote was heard.

Spaw

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: unusual cowboy song
From: catspaw49
Date: 06 May 01 - 09:49 PM

It is a recent song BTW, written by Bob McDill and on an album titled "Songs of the Oregon Trail/Saddle Songs and Campfire Tales" listed here on this site.

Spaw

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: unusual cowboy song
From: katlaughing
Date: 06 May 01 - 09:53 PM

Kewl song and link, Spaw!

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: unusual cowboy song
From: BK
Date: 06 May 01 - 10:07 PM

Wow! I knew y'all'd know it!!! that's it!!

BTW; GREAT song, ain't it?? Think I'd like to chk out what else this guy does, so I'll chk the link..

Thanx a zillion, BK

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: unusual cowboy song
From: Bert
Date: 06 May 01 - 11:41 PM

Great song.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: unusual cowboy song
From: GUEST,Francy
Date: 07 May 01 - 11:23 AM

I've got a version by Don Edwards on his Goin' Back To Texas CD. The Nashville great Bob McDill is hard to beat....I love to sing it...it's so real.............

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: unusual cowboy song
From: Kim C
Date: 07 May 01 - 11:24 AM

That is a FAB song and Don Edwards is my all-time cowboy music hero. And if you ever get a chance to meet him, he is one of the world's nicest folks.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: unusual cowboy song
From: GUEST,Francy
Date: 07 May 01 - 11:30 AM

Nancy and I had Don and his wife Kathy in concert here a year ago this month and you're absolutely right. A fabulous singer and guitar player and truly great people. One of the highlights of our folk concerts so far........