Lyrics:
Well, the whole town listened to the radio
For the Smiling Bill McCall Show
Everyone in Nashville
Was listenin' to Bill
I don't want to be
Well, the whole town listened to the radio
For the Smiling Bill McCall Show
Everyone in Nashville
Was listenin' to Bill
I don't want to be layin' in
(C.W. McCall, Bill Fries, Chip Davis)
dumb da-da-dah dumb da-da-dah dumb da-da-dah dumb-dumb
Dumb da-da-dah dumb da-da-dah dumb da-da-dah da-da-da
(C.W. McCall, Bill Fries, Chip Davis)
[The sound of a lonely harmonica.]
The dance hall is silent and empty
The banjos don't play anymore
The music
(C.W. McCall, Bill Fries, Chip Davis)
She was born in the brief mountain springtime
Blue in the late mountain snow
And she grew in the sunlight
(C.W. McCall, Bill Fries, Chip Davis)
When the snow falls on Christmas Eve,
And everything's white
I sit by the window,
And remember another night
INTRO:
Choppin blades in an 84, Killeen Texas that's my influence...
Leonard Bailey reincarnated, McCall Creek Mississippi!...
Yeah!
HOOK:
Houston
(C.W. McCall, Bill Fries, Chip Davis)
One night last summer we were camped at ten thousand feet up where the air is clear, high in the Rockies
(C.W. McCall, Bill Fries, Chip Davis)
Write me a song about singin'
Write me a song about free
Do a little tune about lovin' and a-livin'
Do it just
(C.W. McCall, Bill Fries, Chip Davis)
From the album Wilderness
Come along and sing
A song you knew before
Come along and sing
Once more
Come
(C.W. McCall, Bill Fries, Chip Davis)
Rollin' down the runway
Thinkin' 'bout the one-way of my life
With another cup of coffee
And another lonesome
(C.W. McCall, Bill Fries, Chip Davis)
'Way out in Colorado
In the Camp Bird Mine
Down deep in the darkness
On level nine
Where the water trickles
behind him the coward, Jack McCall
The slug ripped through his auburn hair, poor Wild Bill never saw
on daddy, while I powder my nose"
I sat back down with a smiling face
While she went down to the powder place
With my greenback, greenback dollar bill
Just
bill
Just a little piece of paper, coated with chlorophyll
She looked at me with that familiar desire
Her eyes lit up like they were on fire
She
She followed his shadow like a lost bird
Riding those Dakota plains
He was branded Wild Bill Hickok
They just called her Calamity Jane
She looked
(C.W. McCall, Bill Fries, Chip Davis)
[Spoken]
Way out in the canyons of the West, there's a wild river. The Spanish named it San Buenaventura; but
(C.W. McCall, Bill Fries, Chip Davis)
One cold, black night of a Colorado winter
It snowed on Red Mountain Pass
We warned ev'rybody that the Slide
(C.W. McCall, Bill Fries, Chip Davis)
Ev'ry evenin', when the sun goes down
And nobody can see me
I get my Chevy an' I cruise around
Makin' love
No account, bank account
Can't raise a dime.
Can't pay the bills.
I got no time
No account bank account
That's got me flying though.
Sure makes
(C.W. McCall, Bill Fries, Chip Davis)
Bill Fries says that this is based on a true story from the late '60s, when a band of hippies rolled into
the lies that you know to be true
I'll find you smiling about
Things you don't have to do
Things you don't have to do
Bill, doesn't call me anymore
I hear,
(C.W. McCall, Bill Fries, Chip Davis)
Me an' RJ an' the kids was on a camp-out in the mountains, and we had us one'a them you-Drive-'Em Army Jeep
(C.W. McCall, Bill Fries, Chip Davis)
Now Arnold Jones an' MaryBeth Jensen's in a 'Vette down by the Deep Rock
Had John Denver on the 8-track,
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