Voodoo Cowboy Songtext
von The Cat Empire

His mother was a snake
His father was a scarecrow
Born in the desert with his hat on his head
Never missed a shot
Sharp as a Pharaoh
Tequila in the sunrise
The desert was his bed

Now he could dance the barn dance
Like nobody before him
But no woman would take him
′Cause his eyes were rather strange
In them, you could see the emptiness of the desert
Yellow like a scarecrow
Black like a snake


He was a voodoo cowboy
And he had never found a girl to call his own
Ooh-on and on and on
That lonely cowboy
But a cowboy's never really–
Cowboy′s never really alone
Really alone

He had a horse
Whose name was Plenty
And they saw things no man or beast should ever see
Out in the redness
Out in the empty
Where ghosts and spirits walk around like you and me

He met a girl
Called Annabelle
And she was just the prettiest thing he'd ever seen
Under a lake at the edge of the world
He met a girl
Walking through the edges of his dreams, because you see

He was a voodoo cowboy
And he was following a psychedelic stream
On and on and on
That lonely cowboy
But a cowboy's never really–
Cowboy′s never really deceived
Really deceived


So there he rode down under the water
And the sunset made a fire above his head
In search of warmth in search of love
In search of heaven above
But all he felt was cold and all he touched was wet

But he could see her down a little bit deeper
And all he wanted was to hold her to his chest
So he reached out and she reached out
And he touched her, and she drew him in
And kissed him as he breathed his final breath
Because you see

He was a voodoo cowboy
And he had finally found a girl to call his own
On and on and on
Lucky, lucky cowboy
Because cowboy′s almost always
Cowboys almost always die alone

Oh-oh, oh, yeah
Die alone!
Oh-oh, oh, yeah
They die alone
Oh, ohh, ooh, ohh
They die alone
Oh-oh, oh, yeah
Woo-ooh