Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy

Music by elton john
Lyrics by bernie taupin
Available on the album captain fantastic and the brown dirt cowboy
 

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Captain fantastic raised and regimented, hardly a hero
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Just someone his mother might know
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Very clearly a case for corn flakes and classics
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Two teas both with sugar please
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In the back of an alley

 

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While little dirt cowboys turned brown in their saddles
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Sweet chocolate biscuits and red rosy apples in summer
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For it’s hay make and hey mom, do the papers say anything good.
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Are there chances in life for little dirt cowboys
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Should I make my way out of my home   in the woods

 

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Brown dirt cowboy,     still green and growing
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City slick captain
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Fantastic the feedback
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The honey the hive could be holding
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For there’s weak winged young sparrows that starve in the winter
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Broken young children on the wheels of the winners
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And the sixty-eight summer festival wallflowers are thinning

 

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For cheap easy meals and hardly a home on the range
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Too hot for the band with a desperate desire for change
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We’ve thrown in the towel too many times
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Out for the count and when we’re down
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Captain fantastic and the brown dirt cowboy
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From the  end of the world to your town

 

[SAME CHORDS AS 3RD VERS (BROWN DIRT COWBOY....)]
And all this talk of jesus coming back to see us
Couldn’t fool us
For we were spinning out our lines walking on the wire
Hand in hand went music and the rhyme
The captain and the kid stepping in the ring
From here on sonny sonny sonny, it’s a long and lonely climb

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