Drivel that cannot fit in a single panel comic.

Tuesday, July 06, 2004

The spammers have been very uncreative lately and I've had other things to do.

I drew a simplified version of Willie Nelson for a cartoon. I was really thinking about the lyrics to Mamas don't let your babies grow up to be cowboys. There is a bit of Dao in that song.

What Willie was saying, in the song, is that cowboys are the embodiment of the unity of opposites. As to why that is a bad thing, I do not know. I suppose society needs doctors and lawyers and such.

Country music and Eastern religion intersect.

The lyrics:
Mama don't let your babies grow up to be cowboys
Don't let 'em pick guitars and drive them old trucks
Make 'em be doctors and lawyers and such

Mama don't let your babies grow up to be cowboys
They'll never stay home and they're always alone
Even with someone they love

Cowboys ain't easy to love and they're harder to hold
And they'd rather give you a song then diamonds or gold
Lonestar belt buckles and old faded Levi's each night begins a new day
And if you don't understand him and he don't die young
He'll probly just ride away

Mama don't let your babies grow up to be cowboys
Don't let 'em pick guitars and drive them old trucks
Make 'em be doctors and lawyers and such

Mama don't let your babies grow up to be cowboys
They'll never stay home and they're always alone
Even with someone they love

Cowboys like smokey old pool rooms and clear mountian moringin's
Little warm puppies and children and girls of the night
And them that don't know him won't like him
And them that do sometimes won't know how to take him
He ain't wrong he's just different
but his pride won't let him do things to make you think he's right

Mama don't let your babies grow up to be cowboys
Don't let 'em pick guitars and drive them old trucks
Make 'em be doctors and lawyers and such

Mama don't let your babies grow up to be cowboys
They'll never stay home and they're always alone
Even with someone they love

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