Indian Cowboy Lyrics - Guy Clark

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 she broke from her pen 

She was a mare of high spirit 

Just like a whore on Saturday night 

She's kickin' and buckin' past the men who were brushin' 

The elephants lyin' on their sides 

Next to the tent sat some lanterns 

They were dangerously close to the hay 

That mare headed straight for those lanterns 

Some fool had put there by mistake 

Then up stepped some Indian Cowboy 

His lasso went whirlin' throught the air 

In the full dead middle of danger 

He roped that runaway mare