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You hardly know a day goes by
In the cardboard cutout sundown
The moon popped up like a gallery duck
Sipped up gold from the sunny cup
And longhorns sawed the buggy grass
And a cowboy blew a harp sitting on his chapped ass
And the prairie flowers didn't look a bit queer
And the stars struck the sand cartwheeled
And poked in the prairie
A cactus juice stand the only place the crows couldn't land
The bluebottle flies were as big as a cowboy's eyes
And their buzz was as loud as rattlers
A fire engine red whistle blows raspberries
In a cloud of whipped steam
A tunmble weed ran out black patent yarn stinkbug hoops
From above a living mail thriving dot
In perfect sympathy with the cardboard cutout sundown
You hardly know a day goes by
In the cardboard cutout sundown
- Album:
- Safe as Milk
- Miscellaneous
- Live At Knebworth Park Saturday 5th July
- Magneticism: The Best of Captain Beefheart & His Magic...
- Merseytrout - Live In Liverpool 1980
- Live in GB 1970 - 1980
- Magnetic Hands: Live in the UK 72-80
- Ice Cream For Crow
- Doc At The Radar Station
- An Ashtray Heart (Live) - Toronto Broadcast 1981
- Magnetism – The Best of Captain Beefheart & His Magic...
- The Dust Blows Forward
- Railroadism: Live in the USA 72-81
- CB & MB in GB
- The Spotlight Kid, Outtakes 1971-1972
- Dichotomy
- Dust Sucker
- Grow Fins: Rarities (1965-1982)
- The New York Hot Dog Night
- Trademark of Quality: 1996 Reprise Sampler