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The Dragon Cowboy Song

from A Yard With Lilacs by Old Sap

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    A full band lush with horns, harmonies, piano, fiddle, electric guitar, and of course, the banjo. "A Yard w/ Lilacs" is a fantastic excursion into Americana, from 1919 to 2019, touring the entire country of sounds, led by the poetics and narratives of Old Sap.

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lyrics

The Dragon Cowboy song

Well, the penny’s always droppin’ on my big toe.
When I’m forced to leave, in the course of ease, I know just where to go.
Yippie-ho, yippie-ha, I can’t tell what I cannot show.
I been playin’ cards with pigs and bards who are wagering my soul.

Do you want this to be a love song
Or a cowboy’s midnight moonshine-drinkin’ tune?
We can ride the wind in 86 directions
on a banjo string-wound rose hot-air balloon.

O the holes we been diggin’ make sturdy beds.
It’s lower, low we go, thinkin’ ‘This’ll never end.’
Giddyup when you get down, slow your roll as the road bends.
I’m in a thunderstorm of questions until I find my friends.

Do you want me to stand with you in protest?
Let me lose my shoes, and here’s the sign I made.
We can ride the wind in 10,0000 directions
in a Jetta Jedi Jesus motorcade.

O Lordy it’s not what you think.
It’s not leaving your cares in the drink.
You might be the one to lead the herd today—donchyaknow
we are sheep headed where all sheep go.

The oats we been sowin’ don’t bear no fruit.
You can hem and haw all day, but you still got to pick a suit.
Vaya con dios—throw the carcass down the chute.
If you tie the knot or if you take the pot, you can never keep the loot.

Didjya want me to deal you all the good ones?
That’s not the way the game is played, no way.
We can ride the wind in infinite directions
like two lovers dozing in the willow’s shade.

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from A Yard With Lilacs, released September 20, 2019

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Old Sap is a poet-banjoist currently located in Western North Carolina.

Folk, Folk Rock, and Americana.

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