Indian Cowboy Lyrics - Flatlanders

If you ever go out to the circus 

Where the Wallendas walk on the wire 

I'll tell you a tale to remember 

When the white horses leap rings of fire 

It was a cold night in Oklahoma 

The show was about to begin 

The animals they were all restless 

When the star horse broke from her pen 

Now she was a mare of high spirit 

Like a whore on a Saturday night 

Just kickin' and buckin' past the men that were brushin' 

The elephants lyin' on their sides 

Now close to the tent sat a lantern 

That was dangerously close to the hay 

That mare headed straight for that lantern 

That some fool had left there by mistake 

Then up comes an Indian Cowboy 

And his lasso whirles throught the air 

In the full dead middle of danger 

He ropes that runaway mare 

Now the elephants raised up their trumpets 

And one of them broke from her chain 

Stampeded that Indian Cowboy 

Who had just saved the big top from flames 

So if you ever go out to the circus 

Where the Wallendas walk on the wire 

Just remember that Indian Cowboy 

When the white horses leap rings of fire 

Remember that Indian Cowboy 

When the white horses leap rings of fire