Pecos Bill

The Little Magic

11/11/2023

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00:00 Amen.

00:01 Of course, there's some other states scattered around.

00:03 Yeah, like Wyoming.

00:04 Milwaukee.

00:05 And Long Island Sound.

00:06 Right.

00:07 Down Texas way, a river flows.

00:10 Where it comes from, nobody knows.

00:12 Where it's a-goin', don't no one care.

00:14 Just dog-goin' glad it's a-leavin' there.

00:17 That there's the Pecos River.

00:18 She was pure alkali.

00:20 Just naturally mean water.

00:23 Why, the buzzards won't even touch it.

00:25 [Buzzing]

00:28 Into this fertile garden spot, once there come a prairie cart.

00:32 There was maw and paw and sixteen brats.

00:36 Four hound dogs.

00:37 Yeah, and a couple of cats.

00:39 All a-goin' west a-lookin' for elbow room.

00:43 Sure could use some of the same.

00:46 Crossin' the Pecos River bed, something fell out and lit on his head.

00:50 Folks didn't even know he was gone.

00:53 Old wagon just kept a-rollin' along.

00:56 Yep, it was Bill.

00:59 Poor little critter.

01:01 Homeless as a poker chip.

01:03 Long came night and a prairie moon.

01:12 Old Maw killed her in home.

01:16 She was due for a shock at her journey's end.

01:19 For the stork had delivered a dividend.

01:22 Plum unusual.

01:24 Yep, she never had 'em before.

01:27 Probably one of them newfangled models.

01:31 Bill looked up and then he grinned.

01:34 Shucks.

01:36 Maw's old heart just plummeted in.

01:40 Bill seen right off that he needn't fear.

01:43 He takes himself a claim right here.

01:46 Headed straight for that old chuck wagon.

01:49 Yep, old Bill was hungrier than a woodpecker with a headache.

01:54 And so it followed as a natural fact that Bill growed up with that coyote pack.

02:14 He soon become the main top hand in a way they all could understand.

02:19 But little Bill he couldn't rest 'til he prued his self to A1 best.

02:31 So he studied the other varmints too.

02:34 Then showed 'em all a trick or two.

02:37 Outlope the antelope.

02:40 Outjump the jackrabbit.

02:44 (Sizzling)

02:47 (Tires screeching)

02:49 Yeah, Bill even out his thrattlesnake.

02:53 Then one day, 'cross the burnin' sand.

03:01 A stranger come to the paper's land.

03:10 The usual committee was there today.

03:15 To welcome their guest in the usual way.

03:38 Now 50 to 1 weren't no fair fight.

03:41 But 1 plus Bill made it just about right.

03:45 Well, it was the beginning of a beautiful friendship.

04:04 From that time on them two stuck together.

04:08 Like warts on a toe, like birds of a feather.

04:11 When Bill growed up it was natural of course.

04:14 He'd choose a career to suit him and his horse.

04:17 Yep, Bill become a rootin', tootin' cowboy.

04:27 Yahoo! Yahoo!

04:31 Whoa! Pecos Bill was quite a cowboy down in Texas.

04:37 And a western superman to say the least.

04:41 He was the roughest, toughest critter.

04:44 Never known to be a critter.

04:46 'Cause he never had no fear of men or beasts.

04:49 So yippee-aye-aye, aye-aye, yippee-aye-oh.

04:53 For the toughest critter west of the Alamo.

04:57 Once he wrote the raging cyclone out of nowhere.

05:01 Then he straddled it and settled down with ease.

05:05 And while that cyclone bucked and flitted.

05:08 Pecos rolled the smoke and lit it.

05:11 And he tamed that ornery wind down to a breeze.

05:15 So yippee-aye-aye, aye-aye, yippee-aye-oh.

05:23 (singing)

05:27 Once there was a drought that spread all over Texas.

05:31 So to sunny California he did go.

05:35 And though the gag is kinda corny.

05:37 He brought rain from California.

05:39 That's the way we got the Gulf of Mexico.

05:43 So yippee-aye-aye, aye-aye, yippee-aye-oh.

05:47 For the toughest critter west of the Alamo.

05:51 Once a band of rusters stole a herd of cattle.

05:55 But they didn't know the herd they stole was Bill's.

05:59 And when he caught them crooked villains.

06:01 Pecos knocked out all their villains.

06:05 That's the reason why there's gold in them bar hills.

06:09 So yippee-aye-aye, aye-aye, yippee-aye-oh.

06:13 For the toughest critter west of the Alamo.

06:17 Oh, Pecos lost his way while traveling on the desert.

06:25 Water.

06:27 It was ninety miles across the burning sand.

06:32 Water.

06:34 He knew he'd never reach the border.

06:38 Water.

06:39 If he didn't get some water.

06:43 Water.

06:49 So he got a stick and dug the Rio Grande.

06:53 A-dee-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh, yeah.

07:03 While a tribe of painted Indians did a war dance.

07:07 Pecos started shooting up their little games.

07:11 Leaving red skin such a shake-up.

07:13 That they jumped out from their makeup.

07:15 That's the way the painted desert got its name.

07:18 So yippee-aye-aye, aye-aye, yippee-aye-oh.

07:22 For the toughest critter west of the Alamo.

07:26 While reclining on a cloud high over Texas.

07:30 With his gun he made the stars evaporate.

07:34 Then Pecos saw the stars declining.

07:36 So he left one brightly shining.

07:38 As the emblem of the lone star Texas state.

07:41 So yippee-aye-aye, aye-aye, yippee-aye-oh.

07:59 Yep, them was happy days for Bill and that horse.

08:03 Looked like nothing could ever come between 'em.

08:07 Then it happened.

08:09 Now Bill was happy that fateful day.

08:12 Killing some time in his carefree way.

08:15 Inventing a one-man rodeo.

08:17 A button heads with a buffalo.

08:22 Poor Bill.

08:23 Yeah, happy as a hog in a turnip patch.

08:26 And then, old man Faith started dealing from the bottom of the day.

08:31 For down the stream comes Sloughfoot Zoo.

08:34 With all her charms revealed to view.

08:37 Looked like something from out in a dream.

08:40 First female woman Bill's ever seen.

08:45 She was strange.

08:46 Unusual.

08:48 Yeah, but powerfully stimulating.

08:51 Like a slugger rye on an empty stomach.

08:55 Give him a right peculiar feeling.

08:57 Set his senses bumbling.

08:59 With a pounding sound inside his ears.

09:02 Like the galloping hoofs of a thousand steers.

09:04 Inside his chest was a-seething and churning.

09:06 His blood was a-boiling, his brain was a-burning.

09:08 A-burning with a fire that could only be cooled.

09:11 In the beckoning depths of two blue-limbed pools.

09:21 [music]

09:32 Yep, Wom-Oar had come to Peckis Bill.

09:36 [music]

09:44 Widowmaker was Plum Puzzle.

09:47 Looked like trouble to him.

09:49 He sure was right.

09:51 [music]

09:55 Bill was busy inventing cordon.

09:58 Western style.

10:00 He arranged for the moon to rise just right.

10:08 And flood the land with a silvery light.

10:15 Ordered the stars in heaven above.

10:22 To form a token of undying love.

10:29 Then crossed the sky in words of fire.

10:37 Bill told Sweet Sue of his own heart's desire.

10:46 Sweet Sue, I love you.

10:54 [explosion]

10:57 And so Sue named the wedding day.

11:01 But there was a price Bill had to pay.

11:04 Sue wanted a bustle, the finest of course.

11:07 And she aimed to be wedded to riding Bill's horse.

11:10 Well, Sue got her bustle and it sure was classy.

11:14 Put the finishing touch on that sweet gal's chassis.

11:17 Well, that fair happy blushing bride was a-busting out with girlish pride.

11:24 [whistling]

11:26 But Bill had promised Slewfoot Sue a ride on Widowmaker too.

11:30 Would that horse be willing to let Sue ride?

11:33 Well, here comes the answer. Fit to be tied.

11:36 Widowmaker was plum irritated.

11:39 But it didn't bother Sue none.

11:42 She walked right up to that critter's side.

11:44 Her gentle hand touched his bristlin' hide.

11:46 Her foot found the stirrup with a flick of her bustle. Sue was aboard.

11:49 And sought for the tusk.

11:51 The proceedings begun to commence.

11:54 Forthwith.

11:56 [whistling]

12:11 No doubt about it, that there Sue was a regular female buckaroo.

12:16 [whistling]

12:25 And then, that bustle.

12:28 Underneath them frills and flounces, Sue was developing plenty of bounces.

12:34 Got to be more than that gal could handle.

12:36 And Sue took off like a Roman candle.

12:40 [whistling]

12:44 [explosion]

12:46 [whistling]

12:51 That devilish contraption of steel and wire kept bouncing that poor gal higher and higher.

12:56 And soon it was plain to the multitude that Sue was again an altitude.

13:01 Sure looked like she was a goner.

13:04 But no. Here come a ray of hope.

13:07 Look. It were Bill and his trusty rope.

13:10 He'd darn soon put a stop to this.

13:13 Shucks. Bill has never known to miss.

13:17 Bill was calm. Confident.

13:21 He built his loop with careless ease.

13:23 He judged his distance. Tested the breeze.

13:28 Then a whirl and a twirl and a twist of the wrist, he let her go.

13:31 [explosion]

13:34 But the champion missed.

13:38 How it come to happen, nobody could never figure out.

13:42 [whistling]

13:47 She was off again on her heavenly flight.

13:50 [explosion]

13:52 Up, up she went, clean out of sight.

13:55 Till far into space this unfortunate maid finally come to the moon.

14:01 And that's where she stayed.

14:04 In the state of Texas, USA, life still goes on in the same old way.

14:11 The St. Louis River still flows on, but the greatest cowboy on earth is gone.

14:18 Yeah, Bill went back to the coyotes, but he never forgot Sue.

14:24 And every night when the moon rised high, he'd lift his voice in mournful cries.

14:29 Bewelling the fate of his lady fair, his long lost love in the sky up there.

14:35 So painful was his grief to see the varmints joined in, out of sympathy.

14:41 And that's how come to this very day, coyotes howl at the moon that way.

14:48 Move along, move along blue shadows.

14:53 Move along, move along, move along, move along.

14:58 Soon the dawn will come and you'll be on your way, on your way.

15:08 But until the darkness sheds its veil,

15:18 there'll be blue shadows on the trail.

15:27 Shadows on the trail.

15:38 [MUSIC]

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