The Flatlanders - Indian Cowboy lyrics

If you ever go out to the circus Where the Wallendas walk on the wire I'll tell you a tale to remember When the white horses leap rings of fire It was a cold night in Oklahoma The show was about to begin The animals they were all restless When the star horse broke from her pen Now she was a mare of high spirit Like a who*e on a Saturday night Just kickin' and buckin' past the men that were brushin' The elephants lyin' on their sides Now close to the tent sat a lantern That was dangerously close to the hay That mare headed straight for that lantern That some fool had left there by mistake Then up comes an Indian Cowboy And his la**o whirles throught the air In the full dead middle of danger He ropes that runaway mare Now the elephants raised up their trumpets And one of them broke from her chain Stampeded that Indian Cowboy Who had just saved the big top from flames So if you ever go out to the circus Where the Wallendas walk on the wire Just remember that Indian Cowboy When the white horses leap rings of fire Remember that Indian Cowboy When the white horses leap rings of fire