The Cheeky Few - The Ballad of the Pale Faced Old Cowboy Lyrics

He crossed the Atlantic with pride on his breath
Looking for free land he don't wanna pay rent
The trees and expanses his empire awaits
He started tearing it down on that very first day
He rarely made friends among local faces
Had to cheat and connive to finagle good graces
His God and his guns, his germs make you dizzy
He can kill you with bullets, he can kill you with whiskey

Let's say adios to the pale faced old cowboy
He's been in the saddle forever it seems
We'll say adios to the pale faced old cowboy
For most it's a nightmare while he lives out his dreams

The soil it was hard and his crops had demands
So he filled up his fields with black and brown hands
In the hist'ry of Egypt he read to the page
Where you can't build no pyr'mids with a minimum wage
All the while thinkin he's an enlightened soul
From his roomy back porch watch his property toil
He writes declarations and bills of his rights
While freely exchanging in African lives
Let's say adios to the pale faced old cowboy
He's been in the saddle forever it seems
We'll say adios to the pale faced old cowboy
For most it's a nightmare while he lives out his dreams

The land he felt promised soon became crowded
With new foreign-born paupers, his prospects were clouded
So he pushed o'er mountains his sights on the west
To start theivin and stealin destiny manifest
Shawnee or Choctaw, Comanche or Crow
He won't leave you in peace wherever you go
He don't the difference between Piute or Sioux
He'll grab your land, grab your children, grab the buffalo too

Let's say adios to the pale faced old cowboy
He's been in the saddle forever it seems
We'll say adios to the pale faced old cowboy
For most it's a nightmare while he lives out his dreams

Now he drills in the ground and he smokes up the sky
And the water tastes rusty in the wells that ain't dry
Heat waves get long and the winters get shorter
Ship his kids off to Mars when this world is over
After all of these years of victory and glory
He honestly thinks he's the victim of the story
To give up the reins he won't volunteer
So rip em away while you sing it out clear

Let's say adios to the pale faced old cowboy
He's been in the saddle forever it seems
We'll say adios to the pale faced old cowboy
For most it's a nightmare while he lives out his dreams