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Kansas Flyer (2003 Live Version) Lyrics by David Carradine

2003

[David Carradine, Sharon Benson, David Carradine & Sharon Benson]
( … Well, you know. Maybe it's that Dorothy Gale and the Scarecrow and all that, but, it's also the geographical [?] center of [?] North America… and it, and it means Child of the South Wind in some Indian dialect or language [whatever they call it?] I don't know [... child?] but I don't care. Anyhow. [Sigh] Pardon me if I cry during this song, [it just?] sometimes happens.)
I used to be a roving cowboy
Take it straight from me
Used to be a moving target
Hunting women never ever [saved their scraps for me?]
[Kids would never show a bull?]
That's how it used to be
Well, I was coming up from Oklahoma
With my trailer and my mare
Heading for the rodeo in Tacoma
I had to try my luck up there
I was travelin' free and easy
Singin' high and wide
Partners with a cool and breezy
Solitude, my bride
Kansas [... tumble and roll?] and
Took me for a ride
Kansas, Kansas Flyer
Had to take a Kansas Flyer
On that Autumn day
Had to take a Kansas Flyer
Now I've lost my way
Knew one day my luck would fail
[Walking?] up the Chisholm Trail
[Bucking?] that October gale
Old Man Winter at my tail
Had to get between [one …?]
Coming up the draw
Saw you hitching for a ride
Just south of Wichita
I slowed down for no good reason
Must have been the change of season
I was only passing through
When I laid my eyes on you
Kansas, Kansas Flyer
Thought that I could kiss and run
Thinking what a fool she'd [done?]
Quickly make my getaway
Oh, and run all through the day
Well, Winter's come n' Winter's gone
And I'm still hangin' around
If I'm still the way I was
I should be leaving town
Might as well own it up I guess
Now that Summer's finally here
Must've found my happiness
I'll sing it loud and clear
Kansas, Kansas Flyer
Had to take a Kansas Flyer
Every day the wheat rose higher
Kansas Flyer's got me now
If I ever leave I won't know how
Now I'm just like any jerk
Now I'm singing while I work
Toiling down this endless field of rye
Took a Kansas Flyer
Now I'll be here till I die
And you know what?
Can't even remember the reason why
(Oh, I remember)
Kansas, Kansas Flyer
Kansas Flyer's got me now
If I ever leave I don't know how
Well, now I've come to settle down
Wasn't very hard
My mare has a pasture on the hill
There's a little girl named Kansas
Playing in the yard
And the trailer [… wheel?]
Kansas, Kansas Flyer
Had to take a Kansas Flyer
Every day the wheat-
[The song is cut short in the video, which continues with tall tales, and parts of Walk A Country Mile and Set Me Free]
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David Carradine

David Carradine

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