"DUDE'S LAMENT"

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For the best effect, please be sure to enjoy watching, in "FULL SCREEN" mode, my homemade amateur video recording of ME (!), performing, by ear, my original composition of, "DUDE'S LAMENT", as I accompany myself by strumming simple chords on my Yamaha G-130A classical guitar.  



"DUDE'S LAMENT"

Words and Music by:
JOHN ROBERT "SAIGON" MALLERNEE
26 December 1995
Saint Anthony, Idaho 

VERSE #1:
I'm not a genuine cowboy
'Cause I'm just a little too fat!
But when I strum my guitar
And sing my songs,
I wear my cowboy hat!
I never learned to ride a horse,
'Cause the horse was smarter than me,
And all I know of cowboy life
Is what they show on TV! 

BRIDGE:
In this great land
There is a place
Where folks wear Western clothes.
They know how to ride
And they know how to rope,
But I'm not one of those! 

VERSE # 2:
I strolled down to the General Store
To buy a pair of jeans.
A cowgirl looked at me and said,
"That dude is full of beans!"
I'm not a genuine cowboy.
That's what the cowboy's say.
But I'm in love with a cowgirl,
So, I'll be a cowboy someday!

REPEAT BRIDGE AND SECOND VERSE

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