Big Six

Big Six - New Riders Of The Purple Sage/David Nelson/Robert Hunter

My heart in my hat and my head in my pants

I go down down down to the dance

I go round round bow and retire

Sit down with a good book in front of the fire

Big Six Big Six tell us who where and when

Before we forget and then tell us again

How to charm women who don't want to know

And how to have music wherever we go

Tell us another time just to be sure

It's straight from the heart not a pile of manure

'bout loving your brother then picking him clean

Of his last dollar bill if you know what I mean

Big Six Big Six tell us who where and why

Some folks born to live and some others to die

Tell us whatever you think we should know

Cause we're ready to follow wherever you go

Teach us to talk right to do right and then

How to walk in like children and walk out like men

So it's not just in one ear and out of the other

How fear is one killer how love is another

Big Six Big Six tell us who where and what

The Devil was dealing when you sidled up

And bought out a hand that was planning to fold

Then walked out the door with a sack full of gold

When I was hungry and sick without home

Walking pneumonia as sadly I roam

One thing I learned that I'll never forget

The difference between a bad loan and a debt

Big Six Big Six tell us who was in charge

When they posted your warrant in letters so large

Said: this man is a caution that all should avoid

If you don't want all your illusions destroyed