Tony - Johnny Cash

This is the story of Tweedle-O-Twist

And a cowboy that I knew named Tony

From Blithe Fresno ol' Sant Joe Washoe go rodeo

Pendleton Santa Ana Baker Bozeman and Burley

From Chambers to Payson Rapid City to Akron

We’d sing just to ease all the hurts that we gained

A bandage to wrap the aches and a few turns of tape

Held us together and stopped the blood stains

Well sometimes we’d draw bad and the stock wouldn’t buck

And there was times when the luck wasn’t goin' our way

But a credit card that I’d found would get us to the next town

With just a switch of his Montana plates

I remember at Evanston when a bull broke his arm

And we had to make it on into Beulah the next day

I broke out the CB and the only doctor Tony seen

Was me and a can of ether

There in the Beulah shoot gates

And it was at Louisville that I went down in the well

And a suicide wrap I held in my hand

The clown just shook his boom while I dangled near doom

It was Tony that saved my life then

Then a year from that week we pulled up at Mesquite

Where I drew number twelve from the herd

And Tony my side kick pulled Tweedle-O-Twist

That bull’s famous from Prairie to Evansburg

All right now cowboys kinda clear the way

Let that ambulance through there let that ambulance on through

Looks like a pretty bad wreck out there folks

Hold up folks we go one more ride left down there in the shoots

Wait a minute it looks like they’re turnin' ole number twelve out

So that’s all for today folks

I’ll finish the story of Tweedle-O-Twist

And the cowboy that I knew named Tony

From Sterling to Abilene Loveland to New Orleans

I’ve got a new partner travelin' with me

But I never could explain why I called him the wrong name

When I get drunk I call him Tony

And sometimes he’ll ask me why I pass Montana by

You know at Butte they got money

But that’s where I met him my side kickin' friend

I’ve got more than enough of his memories

For down in Mesquite there’s a cowboy sleeping

Where bulls ain’t a buckin' ain’t a buckin' ole Tony