INTRO STORY

                                        Honky Tonk Cowboy Band

Honky Tonk cowboy band was a small band out of El Paso

They has one hit fifty years ago.  they have played every 

Honky Tonk from the great Atlantic Ocean to the wide

Pacific Shore.  They can see the end coming.  Bookings are

getting scarce, they want to make a hit record like they did in the

beginning.  That would be two hits in fifty years.

That would make them happy.  Maybe make a  little coin

(they are broke).  It's the beginning of the end.

true story by Riley Lincoln, WPB Fla,  March 2013


Honky Tonk Cowboys, Beginning of the End

Let's top the charts again, boys
  Let's top the charts again
Let's top the charts again, boys
  Like we did when we began

We are the last of the Honky Tonk Cowboys
  After fifty years it's about to end
Let's go out like we came in
  Let's top the charts again, boys
Let's top the charts again

Let's write a song that'd make Hank proud to sing
  Let's throw in a little Bob Will Western Swing
Let's make it a "happy sad song"
  Let's make it where we can all sing along
Let's all drink to the beginning of the end
  Let's top the charts again, boys
Let's top the charts again

This is what we have learned
  Is that the train goes down the track
And it never comes back
  You always get the blues
When a good woman's love you lose
  You only have two real friends
That's your dog
  And your whiskey you got 
Hid in the holler log
  If you stay in the flat lands
You don't have to worry about the fog
  Let's remember how it used to be
How there were plenty of girls to hold
  Plenty of hundred dollar bills to unfold
Wish we could have saved some of the girls
  And kept some of the hundred dollar bills

So here we go, boys
  Let's make some old honky tonk noise
Boys, I think it's just dreams
  Anyway, that's the way it seems
I think maybe after dark tonight
  We ought to slip over the mountains out of sight
Go out in the desert, build a little cabin
  Drink some cold ones, smoke a little weed
And say the Hell with it….
  We will just re-record our first hit
And….forget it


Honky Tonk Cowboy Band   "2013"
written by Riley Lincoln, West Palm Beach, March 2013