The Last Cowboy

from Prayer Street Blues by Jeremy Joyce

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lyrics

In a dirty city in a lonely bed
ain’t no place for to rest my head
I’ll take the earth and a starry sky
So it’s out the window and away I fly

Fying West at a steady speed
Away from what I don’t really need
Away from a world made of steel
Ruled by the automobile

[CHORUS]
Yippee kay yay oh, yippee kay yay yay
Ain’t no work out on the range
Yippee kay yay, yippee kay yay oh
Bury me down in the Oh-Kee-Oh

If I wasn’t born a man somehow
I’d like to be a horse with his mane flowing down
I would not buck and I would not throw
A good cowboy off of me oh no

But I ain’t a horse, lord I was born a man
Born to run free in your green green land
Run em through the valley out to the meadow
singing kay yay yay yippee kay yay oh

Had a good girl about five foot six
she made her living doing pony tricks
I guess it’s been about five years now
That I had to lay my little Janey down

Janey O’ Janey, I’m a coming soon
Drawing a bead on the harvest moon
When I get to heaven you can hear me say
Yippee kay yay oh, yippee kay yay yay

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from Prayer Street Blues, released December 31, 2015

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Jeremy Joyce New Orleans, Louisiana

New Orleans couldn’t offer a more appropriate musical backdrop for Jeremy Joyce, whose genre-defying songs are born out of Jeremy’s macro-level interest in music history and his micro-level interest in what makes songs tick.