Romance in the skies with Pat Garett and Billy the Kid
Billy goat kid musing, just lookin’ down on grass.
Musing on Billy the Kid and the harm he’d done in a pass.
He’d heard all about men most all without class.
Gun slingers, robbers, hero cowboys all puffed up with gas.
An’ all the truths in man’s world buried under their masks.
Billy goat kid musing goes crazy in its head.
Stares into the void and sees dripping blood red.
Billy the Kid carries much more than one name.
Billy winks when he says, “They’re really all the same.”
Midnight in Fort Sumner, the Kid a hunted man
Staying with Pedro Maxwell, working out a plan.
Pat looks at his own life straight as a crooked arrow.
Pat Garett standing in Pedro’s house in a room’s shadows.
Billy doesn’t wink when he asks, “Quien es?,
Pat’s bullet carries death, the Kid will never guess.
Billy goat kid musing goes crazy in its head.
Stares into the void and sees dripping blood red.
Pat Garett in Roswell had a failed irrigation attempt.
Pat Garett was a cattleman saw goats as devil sent.
Pat’s son leases his ranch, didn’t know goats were the intent.
One goat is two too many for Pat no matter the money you get.
Pat riding out to make a deal counting on what’s ahead.
Pat heading out to the future to agree and break bread.
Pat heading out from Las Cruces, Pat Garett is shot dead.
Billy goat kid musing goes crazy in its head.
Stares into the void and sees dripping blood red.
Aliens time traveling only for a lark
Are hit by a transmission setting off a spark
They didn’t know they have in their conscious arc.
They hear of Pat Garett and of Billy the Kid
Of the places they travel to and the things they did.
And how they died and where they lived
And enter the thrall whirlwind of a cowboy trance
That holds them tightly in a spinning romance.
The aliens visit Fort Sumner and Roswell.
All the time singing, “Michelle Ma belle”.
Back and forth they go and up and down
With perfect intents they visit the towns.
Till the day romance breaks in a crash
With a takeoff error and a starship smash
And the only earthling witness in a romantic thrall of glee
Says, to itself, “That dead alien is smiling at me.”
Billy goat kid musing stays sane in its head.
Stares into the void and falls asleep in its bed.