Pecos Bill
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00:00 Amen.
00:01 Of course, there's some other states scattered around.
00:03 Yeah, like Wyoming.
00:04 Milwaukee.
00:05 And Long Island Sound.
00:06 Right.
00:07 Down Texas way, a river flows.
00:10 Where it comes from, nobody knows.
00:12 Where it's a-goin', don't no one care.
00:14 Just dog-goin' glad it's a-leavin' there.
00:17 That there's the Pecos River.
00:18 She was pure alkali.
00:20 Just naturally mean water.
00:23 Why, the buzzards won't even touch it.
00:25 [Buzzing]
00:28 Into this fertile garden spot, once there come a prairie cart.
00:32 There was maw and paw and sixteen brats.
00:36 Four hound dogs.
00:37 Yeah, and a couple of cats.
00:39 All a-goin' west a-lookin' for elbow room.
00:43 Sure could use some of the same.
00:46 Crossin' the Pecos River bed, something fell out and lit on his head.
00:50 Folks didn't even know he was gone.
00:53 Old wagon just kept a-rollin' along.
00:56 Yep, it was Bill.
00:59 Poor little critter.
01:01 Homeless as a poker chip.
01:03 Long came night and a prairie moon.
01:12 Old Maw killed her in home.
01:16 She was due for a shock at her journey's end.
01:19 For the stork had delivered a dividend.
01:22 Plum unusual.
01:24 Yep, she never had 'em before.
01:27 Probably one of them newfangled models.
01:31 Bill looked up and then he grinned.
01:34 Shucks.
01:36 Maw's old heart just plummeted in.
01:40 Bill seen right off that he needn't fear.
01:43 He takes himself a claim right here.
01:46 Headed straight for that old chuck wagon.
01:49 Yep, old Bill was hungrier than a woodpecker with a headache.
01:54 And so it followed as a natural fact that Bill growed up with that coyote pack.
02:14 He soon become the main top hand in a way they all could understand.
02:19 But little Bill he couldn't rest 'til he prued his self to A1 best.
02:31 So he studied the other varmints too.
02:34 Then showed 'em all a trick or two.
02:37 Outlope the antelope.
02:40 Outjump the jackrabbit.
02:44 (Sizzling)
02:47 (Tires screeching)
02:49 Yeah, Bill even out his thrattlesnake.
02:53 Then one day, 'cross the burnin' sand.
03:01 A stranger come to the paper's land.
03:10 The usual committee was there today.
03:15 To welcome their guest in the usual way.
03:38 Now 50 to 1 weren't no fair fight.
03:41 But 1 plus Bill made it just about right.
03:45 Well, it was the beginning of a beautiful friendship.
04:04 From that time on them two stuck together.
04:08 Like warts on a toe, like birds of a feather.
04:11 When Bill growed up it was natural of course.
04:14 He'd choose a career to suit him and his horse.
04:17 Yep, Bill become a rootin', tootin' cowboy.
04:27 Yahoo! Yahoo!
04:31 Whoa! Pecos Bill was quite a cowboy down in Texas.
04:37 And a western superman to say the least.
04:41 He was the roughest, toughest critter.
04:44 Never known to be a critter.
04:46 'Cause he never had no fear of men or beasts.
04:49 So yippee-aye-aye, aye-aye, yippee-aye-oh.
04:53 For the toughest critter west of the Alamo.
04:57 Once he wrote the raging cyclone out of nowhere.
05:01 Then he straddled it and settled down with ease.
05:05 And while that cyclone bucked and flitted.
05:08 Pecos rolled the smoke and lit it.
05:11 And he tamed that ornery wind down to a breeze.
05:15 So yippee-aye-aye, aye-aye, yippee-aye-oh.
05:23 (singing)
05:27 Once there was a drought that spread all over Texas.
05:31 So to sunny California he did go.
05:35 And though the gag is kinda corny.
05:37 He brought rain from California.
05:39 That's the way we got the Gulf of Mexico.
05:43 So yippee-aye-aye, aye-aye, yippee-aye-oh.
05:47 For the toughest critter west of the Alamo.
05:51 Once a band of rusters stole a herd of cattle.
05:55 But they didn't know the herd they stole was Bill's.
05:59 And when he caught them crooked villains.
06:01 Pecos knocked out all their villains.
06:05 That's the reason why there's gold in them bar hills.
06:09 So yippee-aye-aye, aye-aye, yippee-aye-oh.
06:13 For the toughest critter west of the Alamo.
06:17 Oh, Pecos lost his way while traveling on the desert.
06:25 Water.
06:27 It was ninety miles across the burning sand.
06:32 Water.
06:34 He knew he'd never reach the border.
06:38 Water.
06:39 If he didn't get some water.
06:43 Water.
06:49 So he got a stick and dug the Rio Grande.
06:53 A-dee-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh, yeah.
07:03 While a tribe of painted Indians did a war dance.
07:07 Pecos started shooting up their little games.
07:11 Leaving red skin such a shake-up.
07:13 That they jumped out from their makeup.
07:15 That's the way the painted desert got its name.
07:18 So yippee-aye-aye, aye-aye, yippee-aye-oh.
07:22 For the toughest critter west of the Alamo.
07:26 While reclining on a cloud high over Texas.
07:30 With his gun he made the stars evaporate.
07:34 Then Pecos saw the stars declining.
07:36 So he left one brightly shining.
07:38 As the emblem of the lone star Texas state.
07:41 So yippee-aye-aye, aye-aye, yippee-aye-oh.
07:59 Yep, them was happy days for Bill and that horse.
08:03 Looked like nothing could ever come between 'em.
08:07 Then it happened.
08:09 Now Bill was happy that fateful day.
08:12 Killing some time in his carefree way.
08:15 Inventing a one-man rodeo.
08:17 A button heads with a buffalo.
08:22 Poor Bill.
08:23 Yeah, happy as a hog in a turnip patch.
08:26 And then, old man Faith started dealing from the bottom of the day.
08:31 For down the stream comes Sloughfoot Zoo.
08:34 With all her charms revealed to view.
08:37 Looked like something from out in a dream.
08:40 First female woman Bill's ever seen.
08:45 She was strange.
08:46 Unusual.
08:48 Yeah, but powerfully stimulating.
08:51 Like a slugger rye on an empty stomach.
08:55 Give him a right peculiar feeling.
08:57 Set his senses bumbling.
08:59 With a pounding sound inside his ears.
09:02 Like the galloping hoofs of a thousand steers.
09:04 Inside his chest was a-seething and churning.
09:06 His blood was a-boiling, his brain was a-burning.
09:08 A-burning with a fire that could only be cooled.
09:11 In the beckoning depths of two blue-limbed pools.
09:21 [music]
09:32 Yep, Wom-Oar had come to Peckis Bill.
09:36 [music]
09:44 Widowmaker was Plum Puzzle.
09:47 Looked like trouble to him.
09:49 He sure was right.
09:51 [music]
09:55 Bill was busy inventing cordon.
09:58 Western style.
10:00 He arranged for the moon to rise just right.
10:08 And flood the land with a silvery light.
10:15 Ordered the stars in heaven above.
10:22 To form a token of undying love.
10:29 Then crossed the sky in words of fire.
10:37 Bill told Sweet Sue of his own heart's desire.
10:46 Sweet Sue, I love you.
10:54 [explosion]
10:57 And so Sue named the wedding day.
11:01 But there was a price Bill had to pay.
11:04 Sue wanted a bustle, the finest of course.
11:07 And she aimed to be wedded to riding Bill's horse.
11:10 Well, Sue got her bustle and it sure was classy.
11:14 Put the finishing touch on that sweet gal's chassis.
11:17 Well, that fair happy blushing bride was a-busting out with girlish pride.
11:24 [whistling]
11:26 But Bill had promised Slewfoot Sue a ride on Widowmaker too.
11:30 Would that horse be willing to let Sue ride?
11:33 Well, here comes the answer. Fit to be tied.
11:36 Widowmaker was plum irritated.
11:39 But it didn't bother Sue none.
11:42 She walked right up to that critter's side.
11:44 Her gentle hand touched his bristlin' hide.
11:46 Her foot found the stirrup with a flick of her bustle. Sue was aboard.
11:49 And sought for the tusk.
11:51 The proceedings begun to commence.
11:54 Forthwith.
11:56 [whistling]
12:11 No doubt about it, that there Sue was a regular female buckaroo.
12:16 [whistling]
12:25 And then, that bustle.
12:28 Underneath them frills and flounces, Sue was developing plenty of bounces.
12:34 Got to be more than that gal could handle.
12:36 And Sue took off like a Roman candle.
12:40 [whistling]
12:44 [explosion]
12:46 [whistling]
12:51 That devilish contraption of steel and wire kept bouncing that poor gal higher and higher.
12:56 And soon it was plain to the multitude that Sue was again an altitude.
13:01 Sure looked like she was a goner.
13:04 But no. Here come a ray of hope.
13:07 Look. It were Bill and his trusty rope.
13:10 He'd darn soon put a stop to this.
13:13 Shucks. Bill has never known to miss.
13:17 Bill was calm. Confident.
13:21 He built his loop with careless ease.
13:23 He judged his distance. Tested the breeze.
13:28 Then a whirl and a twirl and a twist of the wrist, he let her go.
13:31 [explosion]
13:34 But the champion missed.
13:38 How it come to happen, nobody could never figure out.
13:42 [whistling]
13:47 She was off again on her heavenly flight.
13:50 [explosion]
13:52 Up, up she went, clean out of sight.
13:55 Till far into space this unfortunate maid finally come to the moon.
14:01 And that's where she stayed.
14:04 In the state of Texas, USA, life still goes on in the same old way.
14:11 The St. Louis River still flows on, but the greatest cowboy on earth is gone.
14:18 Yeah, Bill went back to the coyotes, but he never forgot Sue.
14:24 And every night when the moon rised high, he'd lift his voice in mournful cries.
14:29 Bewelling the fate of his lady fair, his long lost love in the sky up there.
14:35 So painful was his grief to see the varmints joined in, out of sympathy.
14:41 And that's how come to this very day, coyotes howl at the moon that way.
14:48 Move along, move along blue shadows.
14:53 Move along, move along, move along, move along.
14:58 Soon the dawn will come and you'll be on your way, on your way.
15:08 But until the darkness sheds its veil,
15:18 there'll be blue shadows on the trail.
15:27 Shadows on the trail.
15:38 [MUSIC]