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Interstellar Cowboy
© words and music by Norman G. Walker SOCAN
I'm an interstellar cowboy, and I roam from star to star
From Polaris to Arcturus, all the way to Achernar
From Vega down to Altair, then back to Deneb too
A celestial triangle in the summer for to view
I know every spiral galaxy, I know every quasar too
Those black holes and those nebulae, yes I know there's quite a few
There's only just one life for me, and it's really not so strange
It's riding out upon the stellar range.
I've worked on all those ranches that spread across the sky
I can tie a knot in a comet's tail , and on that I would not lie
I've worked on herding asteroids, just to keep them in a belt
I can lasso round a stray one, and tell you how it felt
I know every cosmic honky tonk, every cheap hotel and bar
But the place I like to be the most, is camped among the stars
There's only just one life for me, and it's really not so strange
It's riding out upon the stellar range.
Now I don't mind neutrinos, or exploded star debris
I can take the freezing temperatures or the heat in high degrees
I can tolerate those Klingons, with their smelly fancy cars
They leave a trail of Lone Star beer cans, everywhere they are
But give me open spaces, not a fence for light years round
In the silence of the vac-u-um, you cannot hear a sound
There's only just one life for me, and it's really not so strange
It's riding out upon the stellar range.
On the road to the Mizar rodeo, down Ursa Major way
I stopped in at the Alcor bar, just to pass the time away
I saw her in the corner, a beauty for to see
I monitored her blue shift, then she was standing next to me
The rest they say is history, but that don't mean a thing
In the space and time continuum, everything is happening ...at once
There's only just one life for me, and it's really not so strange
It's riding out upon the stellar range.
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