Appaloosa Rider

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[Intro] Appaloosa rider Appaloosa rider [Verse 1] Well, somewhere back around thirty six I was standing knee deep in the Oklahoma sticks Picking them Jimmie Rodgers' licks like I owned them And the girls in town loved what I'd do I had Choctaw hair and eyes of blue They'd call me baby I was six foot two and looked lonesome [Verse 2] Then yonder come a man in a big old car With a black beret and a big cigar He said son you're a natural cowboy star for sure He looked at me and he said sign I looked at him and I said fine I wrote my name on the dotted line and I became [Chorus] The Appaloosa rider Appaloosa rider Appaloosa rider Hero of the plains [Verse 3] Soon I was smiling from magazines My head slicked down with Vaseline And all those bobby-sox babies' screams would ring They'd pack them in like Maine sardines And stand them in the mezzanines To see me ride across the screen and sing [Verse 4] A hundred fights I must have won A thousand bullets in my gun And my hat stayed on through all the fun and glory But my real life pony had its hood adorned With a big old set of western horns While all America ate popcorn and marveled at the one and only [Chorus] Appaloosa rider Appaloosa rider Appaloosa rider Hero of the plains [Verse 5] Well, a real life villain had crossed the line So I crossed Hollywood and Vine And signed another dotted line my handle But when I come back most all the noise Was made for Hoppy's, Gene's, and Roy's And Hollywood had more cowboys than scandals [Verse 6] So here I am in the Oklahoma sticks And out of all my old sidekicks Jack Daniels is the one who sticks around But old friends and fans have begun to write And I learned why the other night When I woke up to a TV fight The hero won and his hat stayed white And guess who rode across my sight I tell you I was dynamite That there was me [Chorus] Appaloosa rider Appaloosa rider Appaloosa rider (Get it) Appaloosa rider Appaloosa rider Appaloosa rider