Lyrics Rodney Crowell

Rodney Crowell

The Flyboy & The Kid

May the wind be at your back

And the world sit at your feet

May you waltz across Wyoming

With a rose clutched in your teeth

May the answers to your questions

Fall like raindrops right on queue

May you set up shop in Heaven

'Fore the Devil knows you're due

Ooh, here's to love

Here's to life

All the fair and tender ladies

And the plain dirt farmer's wife

Yeah, here's to you

Here's to me

Some ol' mad dog mountain flyboy

And the kid from Tennessee

May your nights be filled with laughter

And your days with honest work

May you wake up smelling roses

When you're facedown in the dirt

If you had the sense to come in

When the storm clouds start to grow

You wouldn't be my right hand

And the best friend that I know

Ooh, here's to life

Here's to love

When your heart beats like a lion

And your shoes fit like a glove

Yeah, here's to you

Here's to me

Some ol' mad dog mountain flyboy

And the kid from Tennessee

May you always stay in touch with the things

That keep you young

When you're staring at injustice

May you never bite your tongue

May the bear tracks in your future

Find you downwind in a glade

Where the grass as green as absinthe

Comes in forty different shades

Ooh, here's to love

Here's to life

All the fair and tender ladies

And the old fishmonger's wife

Yeah, here's to you

Here's to me

Some ol' mad dog mountain flyboy

And the kid from Tennessee

Yeah, set 'em up, drinks for free

It's the mad dog mountain flyboy

And the kid from Tennessee