Chris Ledoux - The Cowboy And The Hippie Lyrics
On a highway thru the desert beneath an over passSat two hikers just watchin' cars go byNow one was wearin' sandles with straggly matted hairRose colored glasses for his eyesNow the other was a cowboy he'd been down on his luckLost his money at the Tuson rodeoAnd he sat beside what remained of his trusty pickup truckAnd like the hippie now he's thumbin' down the roadSome folks don't realize that it's a well know factCowboy's and hippies ain't never got alongWas it just coincidence or some weird act of fateThat brought these two together on the roadThey sat there without talking while the morning sun rose highWhen a hot desert breeze commenced to blowAnd the fragrance of the incense and six weeks without a bathFinally drifted down and reached the cowboy's noseWell man that really did it he couldn't take no moreAnd he tied his old bandana around his faceHe said you greasy stinking hippie you'd put a skunk to shameBoy you're a discrace to the human raceNow the hippie just sat there and gave the cowboy a smileSaid man you don't smell so sweet yourselfWell I'm not too sure what that green stuff is on your boots and on your jeansBut whew it's enough to make a buzzard belchThe cowboy said now listen I ain't gonna that that stuff from youNo long haired freaks gonna talk to me that way get upWell the hippie said, now hold on man, what good's that gonna doYou know fighting never settles nothing anywayNow we both love our freedom and we'll answer to no manAnd you've heard it said to thine own self be trueWe're just a couple of free spirts drifting across the landDoing exactly what we want to doSaid now me I got my things and you you got yoursAnd I don't see why we can't get alongThey say the closest thing to freedom is livin' on the roadIn a country were freedom's almost goneWell the cowboy, he just stood up there and never said a wordBut you know this hippie sure made a lot of senseThey shook hands and parted as a truck pulled to the sideAnd the hippie he went East and I went West
