Lyr Req: Lonesome Cowboy Burt (Frank Zappa)

Subject: Lyr Req: Lonesome Cowboy Bert
From: Al
Date: 16 Jul 06 - 11:30 PM

By Frank Zappa. Starts: My name is Bertram, I am a redneck. All my friends, they call be Bert (hey, Bert!) All my family, they live in Texas, make their living digging dirt.

Any help would be much appreciated.

Al

Subject: ADD: Lonesome Cowboy Burt
From: Peace
Date: 16 Jul 06 - 11:35 PM

Lonesome Cowboy Burt.

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Lyrics copy-pasted from the link cited above.
-Joe Offer-

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Lonesome Cowboy Burt

(Frank Zappa)

My name is Burtram
I am a redneck
All my friends,
They call me 'Burt'
(Hi, Burt!)
All my family,
From down in Texas
Make their livin'
Diggin' dirt

Come out here to Californy,
Just to find me
Some pretty girls
Ones I seen
Gets me so horny;
Ruby lips,
'N teeth like pearls!

Wanna love 'em all!
Wanna love 'em dearly!
Wanna pretty girl-
I'll even pay!
I'll buy 'em furs!
I'll buy 'em jewelry!
I know they like me;
Here's what I say:

I'm lonesome Cowboy Burt!
(Speakin' atcha!)
Come smell my fringe-y shirt!
(Reekin' atcha!)
My cowboy pants,
My cowboy dance,
My bold advance,
On this here waitress . . .
Yodel-oh-oo-pee-hey
Yodel-oh-oo-pee!

(He's lonesome Cowboy Burt
Don'tcha get his feelings hurt)
Come on in this place,
'N I'll buy you a taste,
You can sit on my face-
Where's my waitress?

Burtram, Burtram redneck
Burtram, Burtram redneck

I'm an awful nice guy!
Sweat all day in the sun!
Roofer by trade,
Quite a bundle I've made,
I'm unionized roofin' old
Son-of-a-gun!
(He's a unionized roofin' old
Son-of-a-gun!)

When I get off, I get plastered
Drink till I fall onna floor,
Find me some Communist bastard,
'N stomp on his face till he don't
Move no more!
(He stomps on his face till he don't
Move no more!)

I fuss, an' I cuss an' I keep on drinkin',
Till my eyes puff up an' turn red!
I drool on m'shirt,
I see if he's hurt,
Kick him again in the head, yes!
Kick him again in the head, boys!
Kick him again in the head, now!
KICK HIM AGAIN IN THE HEAD!

Lonesome Cowboy Burt!
(Speakin' atcha!)
Come smell my fringe-y shirt!
(Reekin' atcha!)
My cowboy pants,
My cowboy dance,
My bold advance,
On this here waitress . . .
Yodel-oh-oo-pee-yeh
Yodel-oh-oo-pee!

(HE'S LONESOME COWBOY BURT,
A-don'tcha get his feelin's hurt)
Yeah . . . but come on in this place,
An' I'll buy you a taste,
'N you can sit on my face-
Where's my waitress?
OPAL, YOU HOT LITTLE BITCH!

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Lonesome Cowboy Bert
From: Q (Frank Staplin)
Date: 16 Jul 06 - 11:41 PM

From the 1971 movie "200 Motels," staring T. Bikel and recorded on the soundtrack cd. Sung by Jimmy Carl Black.
The soundtrack cd is available used through Amazon.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Lonesome Cowboy Bert
From: Al
Date: 16 Jul 06 - 11:53 PM

Great, thanks. Anybody know if an mp3 is available free somewhere? sound quality does not need to be good.
Al

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Lonesome Cowboy Bert
From: open mike
Date: 17 Jul 06 - 10:49 PM

goggle this and let us know what you find
Frank Zappa Lonesome Cowboy Burt

Hi, Al!

do you know cowboy joe,
the son of a gun from arizona?
(not the guy, the song)

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Lonesome Cowboy Bert
From: Peace
Date: 18 Jul 06 - 01:24 AM

Is this it? Words and music here. Have yer sound on.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Lonesome Cowboy Bert
From: Snuffy
Date: 18 Jul 06 - 08:31 AM

I remember Ragtime Cowboy Joe from my 1950s childhood in England, but as it first appeared in 1912 it's old enough to be in the DT as folk! Might have been Jo Stafford's recording, but I thought I remembered a man singing it

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Lonesome Cowboy Bert
From: open mike
Date: 18 Jul 06 - 09:39 AM

oops sorry to have rustled your thread, al.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Lonesome Cowboy Bert
From: Q (Frank Staplin)
Date: 18 Jul 06 - 12:16 PM

Nope, Peace, but thanks for the reminder of a song I haven't heard in years.