Michael Martin Murphey - Goodbye Old Desert Rat lyrics

She sits on the front porch Of the old house that stands scorched Under the sunstroke Of the desert day that choked Her old man who fell in the sun. With rattlesnakes and keepsakes Old boxes of cornflakes Gramophones and gemstones And three unclaimed door frames And bleached bones and rocks by the ton. Goodbye old desert rat You half crazy wildcat You knew where it was at What life's all about Saver of catalogs King of the prairie dogs Success is survival And you toughed it out. You old loudmouth rock hound You kept the kids spell bound Half crazy and sunbaked You earned your own grubstake By breaking your back all day long With junk art and dump carts And old Model-T parts Frustrated, outdated And uneducated At 80 you still wrote good songs Goodbye old desert rat You half crazy wildcat You knew where it was at What life's all about Saver of catalogs King of the prairie dogs Success is survival And you toughed it out.