Song information On this page you can find the lyrics of the song The Ballad Of Cactus Pete And Lefty, artist - Ray Stevens. Date of issue: 31.12.1986
Song language: English
The Ballad Of Cactus Pete And Lefty |
| This is the ballad of Cactus Pete |
| He spent his life out in the desert heat |
| In Arizona and New Mexico |
| Searchin' for the motherlode |
| He had no friends, he had no family |
| Just a pet sidewinder that he called Lefty |
| They shared a run-down minin' shack |
| Out with the coyotes and horny toads |
| Hehehe, yeah just look at I’m all coiled up o’er there |
| I’ll never forget the first time I saw 'im |
| He’s just a-sneakin' up on a little toady frog |
| Settle down, settle down, ain’t no toady frogs, I’m just tellin' 'bout you |
| sneakin' up on one |
| He loves them little toady frogs |
| Lord, I couldn’t live like 'at |
| You shoulda seen him when I first found him |
| He had real bad teeth |
| Yeah, just had two little bicuspids there in front, lord what a gap |
| Made Leon Sphinx look like Burt Lancaster |
| Took him to the orthodondist |
| Yeah, we tried braces, that didn’t last too long |
| Heck, I got tired of mashin' up them little toady frogs for 'im |
| So we just had 'em capped |
| Yeah, he’d have to have 'em filled anyway, they both had big cavities in 'em |
| Oh, but just look at that smile on 'im over 'ere now, though |
| Cactus Pete, Cactus Pete |
| With his pet sidewinder at his feet |
| Strangest old codger you ever wanna meet |
| This is the ballad of Lefty and Cactus Pete |
| Hehehe, yeah me 'n old Lefty, we ain’t got much |
| I’m poorer 'n a church mouse |
| Settle down, settle down, ain’t no church mouse |
| I’m just tellin' 'bout a church mouse |
| Hehe, he loves a fuzzy little church mouse |
| Lord, I couldn’t live like 'at |
| He’s a cold-natured critter |
| Yeah, I cut the toe out of an old sock one time, made him a little sweater |
| Didn’t work, though, he just kept crawlin' out of it |
| He ain’t hardly got no shoulders at all, you know |
| But lord what a neck |
| Got more neck than Audrey Hepburn |
| Cactus Pete, Cactus Pete |
| With his pet sidewinder at his feet |
| Out there 'mongst the cacti and mesquite |
| This is the ballad of Lefty and Cactus Pete |
| Hehehe, yeah nearly lost ol' Lefty one time, though |
| He 's out sunnin' himself on that big rock o’er there |
| Yeah, he’d just gorged down two blue-bellied lizards and a heelee monster |
| Settle down, settle down, ain’t no heelee monster, I’m jus' talkin' 'bout a |
| heelee monster |
| Like I said, he 's on that rock o’er there |
| And a big ol' bal' headed eagle just swooped down, snatched 'im up |
| Wen' flappin' off with him through the cactus |
| Ol' Lefty, he just squirmed around, looked up at that eagle |
| Flashed him that big ol' pearly-toothed smile… |
| That eagle dropped him like a hot potato, hehehe |
| Thought he was a lawyer |
| Cactus Pete, Cactus Pete |
| With his pet sidewinder at his feet |
| The saga of the West wouldn’t be complete |
| Without the ballad of Cactus Pete |
| And Lefty |
| Calm down there, boy, they wasn’t gonna forget ya |