Singin' The Dinosaur Blues Lyrics - Jerry Jeff Walker

Steven Fromholz 

Me and my friends are getting long in the tooth 

After three or four decades of seeking the truth 

Trying to recover from misspent youth 

And gradually giving in to knowledge 

I know a picker who moved to Nepal 

And another buddy's got a little shop in a mall 

Some of my brothers ain't breathing at all 

And others have given up privilege 

But I'm still beating on my old guitar 

Singing my songs in a smoky old bar 

Hitching my wagon to a shooting star 

And hoping that star don't fall 

I'll keep picking as long as I can 

But I don't want to die just a honky-tonk man 

I'm just a buffalo singing the dinosaur blues 

I was out last night, just me and a partner 

Ain't nothing but a fool would drink that hard 

You wind up sleeping in your buddy's front yard 

And you wonder what to tell the little woman 

Me and the band's up all night long 

We was passing the pipe and banging the gong 

Trying to remember one of Van Zandt's songs 

Something about Mudd and Gold a-gamblin' 

But I'm still walking down the lost highway 

Doing what it takes to make my way 

Knowing that I got a piper to pay 

And hoping that I like the song 

Maybe it'll be a ditty I know 

I got people to see and places to go 

Just an old buffalo singing the dinosaur blues 

I've been a lucky man all of my life 

I got two great kids and a wonderful wife 

Got a rosewood guitar and a very sharp knife 

And I got a handy little knack for rhymin' 

I been blessed with a voice that can sing 

And a faith in the future and what it may bring 

And change is the very most natural of things 

And life is mostly attitude and timing 

One of these days, well, I'll disappear 

You'll look around and I won't be here 

Don't worry, buddy, there's nothing to fear 

I'm just going where the rivers flow 

You can find me in a rubbery boat 

Down in Mexico you can send me a note 

Care of a old buffalo singing the dinosaur 

I've played Buffalo, I recall Dinah Shore 

I'm just a buffalo singing the dinosaur blues