We’ve updated our Terms of Use to reflect our new entity name and address. You can review the changes here.
We’ve updated our Terms of Use. You can review the changes here.

My Favourite Cowboy

from For My Smoke by Shiloh Lindsey

/

  • Buy the Full Digital Album

  • Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album

    My first LP released in 2005

    Includes unlimited streaming of For My Smoke via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
    ships out within 1 day
    Purchasable with gift card

      $7 CAD or more 

     

about

A song of love and forgiveness for my Dad, who is and will always be my favourite Cowboy. I wrote this when I was 20.

lyrics

Now I realize that you'll never change
Though I really wish you would one day
I remember sitting in the driveway drawing faces in the sand
And you walked up to me with sun at your back
And it silhouettes you perfectly
Like a shadow on the wall
You should be getting closer to me
But it's not that way at all

(chorus)
Will I see you around
In a bar downtown
Drinking whiskey with your friends
Telling them all the dreams that you once had
All the dreams that you once had
But you let them slip away

All I wanted to be was a sparkle in your eye
Maybe I was all this time
I remember driving down the road with you
With Johnny Cash playing on the 8-track
And your old cowboy hat is still hanging on my wall
It's waiting for you to come back home

(chorus)

I should have known
by the rusty nail in the crumbling wall
That it would eventually fall
Well this ain't Hollywood
And we're not on the set of some Spaghetti Western
There are no perfect heroes that Clint Eastwood or John Wayne would have played
You're still my favourite, You're my favourite Cowboy

credits

from For My Smoke, released June 15, 2005
Written by Shiloh Lindsey
Recorded & produced by John Ellis

license

all rights reserved

tags

about

Shiloh Lindsey image

Shiloh Lindsey Vancouver, British Columbia

Shiloh Lindsey is a storyteller. Her meticulous songcrafting builds rich at every layer, like a master chemist of harmonies and human connections, churning the sheer vulnerability and preciousness of life into charged, haunting alt-country. Love may come and go, morning drifts in then daylight disappears, but rest assured, one little fire is burning ever bright. ... more

contact / help

Contact Shiloh Lindsey

Streaming and
Download help

Redeem code

Report this track or account

If you like Shiloh Lindsey, you may also like:

Bandcamp Daily  your guide to the world of Bandcamp

On Bandcamp Radio

Featuring Riley Pinkerton (aka The Rat Queen) from the theatrical NYC rockers, Castle Rat.
listen now