elaby | Eggs and neat songs

I had to get one too! Hee.

This egg hatches on October 1, 2005! Adopt one today!

I skifed this CD from my Dad called Americana Vol. II. It's got the awesomest songs on it. *giggles* Like the Ballad of Davy Crocket, Big Iron on His Hip, May the Bird of Paradise Fly Up Your Nose, and many more exciting ancient marginally country-western songs. Most of them deal with cowboy gunfights or Mexican stuff. They're all stories.

This is the best one. I LOFF IT OMG. Not many country-western songs are about reincarnation.

I was a highwayman. Along the coach roads I did ride
With sword and pistol by my side
Many a young maid lost her baubles to my trade
Many a soldier shed his lifeblood on my blade
The bastards hung me in the spring of twenty-five
But I am still alive.

I was a sailor. I was born upon the tide
And with the sea I did abide.
I sailed a schooner round the Horn to Mexico
I went aloft and furled the mainsail in a blow
And when the yards broke off they said that I got killed
But I am living still.

I was a dam builder across the river deep and wide
Where steel and water did collide
A place called Boulder on the wild Colorado
I slipped and fell into the wet concrete below
They buried me in that great tomb that knows no sound
But I am still around..I'll always be around..and around and around and
around and around

I fly a starship across the Universe divide
And when I reach the other side
I'll find a place to rest my spirit if I can
Perhaps I may become a highwayman again
Or I may simply be a single drop of rain
But I will remain
And I'll be back again, and again and again and again and again...

I found the lyrics and the artists were listed like this: "Waylon Jennings/Willie Nelson/Johnny Cash/Kris Kristofferson". Er. NO. *snicker*

I'm also particularly fond of Johnny Cash's Long Black Veil.