Before one becomes successful and famous,
being someone known only to his mother,
he will only talk with his mother
about the ways he can go:
"Are there chances in life for little dirt cowboys?"
"Should I make my way out of
my home in the woods?"
After one has become successful and famous,
he has become someone
who can frankly talk with his mother only
about his ups and downs on the way there,
just because only his mother couldn't fool him
and tell him her real feelings.
"Hey, Mom, do the papers say anything good?"
Elton John - Captain Fantastic and Brown Dirt Cowboy
Captain Fantastic, raised and regimented,
hardly a hero
Just someone his mother might know
Very clearly a case for Corn Flakes and classics
"Two teas both with sugar please"
In the back of an alley
While little dirt cowboys
turned brown in their saddles
Sweet chocolate biscuits and
red rosy apples in summer
For it's hay make and "Hey mom,
do the papers say anything good?
Are there chances in life for little dirt cowboys?
Should I make my way out of my home in the woods?"
Brown Dirt Cowboy, still green and growing
City slick Captain
Fantastic the feedback
The honey, the hive could be holding
For there's weak winged young sparrows that
starve in the winter
Broken young children on
the wheels of the winners
And the sixty-eight
summer festival wallflowers are thinning
For cheap easy meals,
hardly a home on the range
Too hot for the band with
a desperate desire for change
We've thrown in the towel too many times
Out for the count and when we're down
Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy
From the end of the world to your town
And all this talk of Jesus
coming back to see us
Mmm mmm couldn't fool us
For we were spinning out our lines
walking on the wire
Hand in hand went music and the rhyme
The Captain and the Kid
stepping in the ring
From here on sonny sonny sonny,
it's a long and lonely climb
For cheap easy meals,
hardly a home on the range
Too hot for the band with
a desperate desire for change
We've thrown in the towel too many times
Out for the count and when we're down
Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy
From the end of the world to your town
We've thrown in the towel too many times
Out for the count and when we're down
Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy
From the end of the world to your town
