Cowboy And The Hippie

On a highway thru the desert beneath an over pass

Sat two hikers just watchin' cars go by

Now one was wearin' sandles with straggly matted hair

Rose colored glasses for his eyes

Now the other was a cowboy he'd been down on his luck

Lost his money at the Tuscon rodeo

And he sat beside what remained of his trusty pickup truck

And like the hippie now he's thumbin' down the road

Some folks don't realize that it's a well know fact

Cowboy's and hippies ain't never got along

Was it just coincidence or some weird act of fate

That brought these two together on the road

They sat there without talking while the morning sun rose high

When a hot desert breeze commenced to blow

And the fragrance of the incense and six weeks without a bath

Finally drifted down and reached the cowboy's nose

Well man that really did it he couldn't take no more

And he tied his old bandana around his face

He said you greasy stinking hippie you'd put a skunk to shame

Boy you're a discrace to the human race

Now the hippie just sat there and gave the cowboy a smile

Said man you don't smell so sweet yourself

Well I'm not too sure what that green stuff is on your boots and on your jeans

But whew it's enough to make a buzzard belch

The cowboy said now listen I ain't gonna that that stuff from you

No long haired freaks gonna talk to me that way get up

Well the hippie said, now hold on man, what good's that gonna do

You know fighting never settles nothing anyway

Now we both love our freedom and we'll answer to no man

And you've heard it said to thine own self be true

We're just a couple of free spirts drifting across the land

Doing exactly what we want to do

Said now me I got my things and you you got yours

And I don't see why we can't get along

They say the closest thing to freedom is livin' on the road

In a country where freedom's almost gone

Well the cowboy, he just stood up there and never said a word

But you know this hippie sure made a lot of sense

They shook hands and parted as a truck pulled to the side

And the hippie he went East and I went West