Willie

Lyrics

[Verse 1] Hanging on the wall just like a thousand times you been there A picture of a field of dandelions And a young stud colt a-followin' some ol' cowboy on a brood mare A-bound to make it home by dinner time [Verse 2] There's a thunderhead a-coming from the west and he's sure thinking The rain would do this dusty dirt some good But it ain't a cowboy's weather so he nudges his old faithful And turns around to call out to the stud [Chorus] Come on Willie, there's a black cloud coming yonder The devil beats his wife with a silver chain Come on Willie, boy can't you hear the thunder Your ma and me don't travel well in rain [Verse 3] It ain't nothing much to look at, just a print I got from grandma A real west river cowgirl in her day And sometimes I need religion since the old girl's gone before me And that's when I can hear the cowboy say [Chorus] "Come on Willie, there's a black cloud coming yonder "The devil beats his wife with a silver chain "Come on Willie, boy can't you hear the thunder "Your ma and me don't travel well in rain" [Verse 4] And now the western feeling has become another sideshow Selling out the bygone days gone by And we never know it's raining, we can't hear it for our thunder We can't see it for our clouds up in the sky [Chorus] Come on Willie, there's a black cloud coming yonder The devil beats his wife with a silver chain Come on Willie, boy can't you hear the thunder Your ma and me don't travel well in rain Your ma and me don't travel well in rain