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Artist/Band: Bobby Bare
Lyrics for Song: Appaloosa Rider
Lyrics for Album: Bare Tracks [Koch Records] [1999]



(George M. Jones)



Well, somewhere back around thirty six

I was standin' knee deep in the Oklahoma sticks

Pickin' them Jimmie Rodgers' licks like I owned 'em

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.



Then yonder come a man in a big ol' car

With a black baret 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

The Appaloosa Rider, Appaloosa Rider, Appaloosa Rider

Hero of the plains.



Soon I was smilin' from magazines

My head slicked down with Vaseline

And all those bobby-sox babies' screams would ring

They'd pack 'em in like Main sardines

And stand 'em in the mezzanines

To see me ride cross the creen and sing.



I hundred fights I musta won

A thousand bullets in my gun

And my hat staeyd on through all the fun and glory

But my real life pony had its hood adorned

With a big ol' set of western horns

While all America ate popcorn and marveled at the one and only

Appaloosa Rider, Appaloosa Rider, Appaloosa Rider

Hero of the plains.



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 Hoppys Genes and Roys

And Hollywood had more cowboys than scandals.



So here I am in the Oklahoma sticks

And out of all my old sidekicks

Jack Daniesls 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

Appaloosa Rider, Appaloosa Rider, Appaloosa Rider.



Appaloosa Rider, Appaloosa Rider, Appaloosa Rider...


Album Lyrics: Bare Tracks [Koch Records] [1999]


Bobby Bare
"Bare Tracks [Koch Records] [1999]"


1. Dropping Out of Sight
2. Food Blues
3. Appaloosa Rider
4. Willie Jones