Song Lyrics and Poetry

[D Akey]

Slow Movin Outlaw

This is probably my favorite song written by Willie Nelson. I first heard it when Waylon Jennings put it on an album around 1973. It moved me the first time I heard it, and it still moves me today.

All the old stations are being torn down, and the high flying trains no longer roar.
The floors are all sagging, with boards that are suffering, from not being used anymore.
Things are all changing, the world's rearranging, a time that will soon be no more.
Where has a slow movin', once quick draw outlaw, got to go?

The whiskey that once settled the dust, and tasted so fine, now tastes of pain.
And the memories it once blotted out, come back stronger, more clearly, with each drink you take.
The women that warmed you, once thought so pretty, now look haggard and old.
Where has a slow movin,' once quick draw outlaw, got to go?

The land where I travel, once fashioned with beauty, now stands with scars on her face.
The wide open spaces, are closing in quickly, from the weight of the whole human race.
It's not that I blame them, for claiming her bounty, I just wish they'd taken it slow.
Cause where has a slow movin', once quick draw outlaw, got to go?
Where has a slow movin', once quick draw outlaw got to go?

How about Weylon Jennings? Couldn't find Willie Nelson.

I was spared this kind of sentiment though in that I wanted to be a cowboy when I was a kid, but could never find "The West".

Like so many others, my family left Ohio and we went west. We finally hit the Pacific Ocean and couldn't go any farther. But it wasn't far enough, so we built piers in the ocean just to get a little farther West. (Thank you Gallagher). . .

I appreciate this song a lot. But there should be some kind of lament for those who never found the cowboy way. . . except on TV and such songs.

If you had/have this kind of lifestyle I envy you. That burning barn makes for a really nice sky. . .

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KBHdGEoVxTg

[barnburner]

How about Weylon Jennings? Couldn't find Willie Nelson.

I was spared this kind of sentiment though in that I wanted to be a cowboy when I was a kid, but could never find "The West".

Like so many others, my family left Ohio and we went west. We finally hit the Pacific Ocean and couldn't go any farther. But it wasn't far enough, so we built piers in the ocean just to get a little farther West. (Thank you Gallagher). . .

I appreciate this song a lot. But there should be some kind of lament for those who never found the cowboy way. . . except on TV and such songs.

If you had/have this kind of lifestyle I envy you. That burning barn makes for a really nice sky. . .

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KBHdGEoVxTg

So glad you looked up the youtube for this. The neat thing about this song is that I think that it works for everybody in one sense of another, at some point in their lives, regardless of location.. Thank you very much.!

[coops]

Amusing as ever dear Mr Akey, yes my dad had rather a splendid voice, nice to hear that you father sang also.
I enjoyed the trip out west via your link, thanks very much it was quite a trip
Nice reading yours too Barnburner but I kinda knew that would be your type of music from your writing

[Selby]

How did I miss this gorgeous thread?

got to carve some time out to make a submission for this space