CAPTAIN FANTASTIC AND THE BROWN DIRT COWBOY

Year:  1975
Album:  CAPTAIN FANTASTIC AND THE BROWN DIRT COWBOY
Writers:  Elton John\ Bernie Taupin

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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 are 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


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And all this talk of Jesus coming back to see us
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Mmmmmhmmmm, Couldn't fool us
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For we were spinning out our lines walking on the wire
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Hand in hand went music and the rhyme
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The Captain and the Kid stepping in the ring
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From here on sonny sonny sonny, it's a long and lonely climb



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For cheap easy meals are 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
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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

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Chorded by Barbara Crawford
Edited by Rob Davies