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Cowboy Style

from What I'm Lookin' For by Dan Weber

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    "You know, looking back on it, the songs on ‘What I’m Lookin’ For’ aren’t just where I was ‘at’ in the past few years, but where I was headed as well. There’s a lot more of ‘me’ in these songs than there was in ‘Ash and Bone’. They say ‘courage comes in many forms’ but mostly it came from fans, friends and all the great folks I’ve met along the way who came to shows and shared a kind word or two. More than anything, that’s what keeps me going.

    This collection of songs is a ‘Family’ of sorts, including some shirt-tail cousins and loud uncles that came to the annual reunion mostly for the home cooking and free drinks. They told stories that you couldn’t help listening to and laughing at even though you secretly knew they weren’t 100% true. They’re a family of doers and dreamers; mothers and daughters; bankers, brothers, welders, Texans and truckers. They’re alcoholics, workaholics, Californians, Christians, cowboys and customer service agents. And they’re singers, seekers, rogues, rodeo queens, fathers, sons and mother-in-laws who like everything from Woody Guthrie to Whitney Houston.

    But in the end, they’ll always be part of the family and like the rest of us they’re either running ‘from’ something or ‘to’ something. Some of ‘em left the reunion early, some stayed longer than they probably should have, but all of them marched to the beat of whatever drummer they heard and headed in the direction they wanted to, or needed to go.

    When I left the party, I backtracked through downtown, along Main Street. I stopped in the hardware store, one of the quintessential small-town varieties that sells a little bit of everything, and picked up a paper bag of loose nails, a couple packages of AA batteries and a fifth of bourbon from the shelf behind the counter. I made small talk with the gal while she rang things up, mostly about the weather and things we couldn’t do anything about. As I was talking to her I somehow couldn’t escape the feeling, that for the first time in a long time, this was where I was supposed to be.

    After I paid, I walked out into the late afternoon sun, with a couple hours of daylight still left, and got in the truck and headed down the road. Guess I Ain’t Done Ramblin’ Yet after all…"

    ~ Dan
    Veterans Day, 2014

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about

One of my favorite things to do is to spend a perfectly good Sunday afternoon with a grilled cheese sandwich an ice cold Miller High-Life down in the basement watching some old Western. There are good guys and bad guys and still something to be said for honesty, integrity---a ‘code’ of sorts---occasionally drinking whiskey for breakfast, and always tipping your hat to a pretty girl. I wrote this as a ‘Will’ of sorts, what I’d like my friends to do when my time has come. Head up Highway 142 about 10 miles, bring my guitar and a little bourbon. Go another mile past the bridge, then up the dirt driveway on the left. The rest is up to you.

This is dedicated to Jessica and Matt in Tucson, AZ, and with a big tip of my Stetson to their Dad ‘Bob’. R.I.P. Cowboy.

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Cowboy Style
By Dan Weber © 2015 Highway142Music (ASCAP)

When I die won’t you honor my last will and test
And these wishes I’ll ask of you now
They’re simple and few, so promise you’ll do
The best that you know how
The lay me down under the stars, so I can rest a while
Oh way ‘Out West’ I long to be
‘Cause I wanna go Cowboy Style

Load the wagons in the Spring, when the Red-Wing Blackbird sings
And please bring my old guitar
Then play it for me once again, as I round that final bend
Aw, she’s taken me this far
Then won’t you give it away at the close of day, ‘cause I’ll be traveling light
Then play ‘Red River Valley’ just one last time
‘Cause I wanna go Cowboy Style

Chorus:
And let those horses run free, let their spirits be
Aw, they already know I’m gone
Find that canyon on the map, no there’s no turnin’ back
And the trail, it won’t be long

Now don’t make a fuss, you know I don’t need much
Just the shade of some fine old tree
And a river that’s near, so I hear her
Singin’ me to sleep
And say these words at my grave, John 5:28, ‘cause Lord knows I tried
And build a simple box of Ponderosa Pine
‘Cause I wanna go Cowboy Style

Repeat Chorus

At last there’s my hat, don’t y’all forget about that
‘Cause I’d miss it, if it were gone
And these old cowboy boots, hell you know just what to do
So you better damn sure leave ‘em on
Now don’t be shy, no please stop by, and be sure to bring a song
And some whiskey to share, ‘cause I’ll be dry
And I wanna go Cowboy Style

So when my race is run and my days are done
You pile those stones up high
With a white wooden cross that just says ‘Here Lies’
Then let me go Cowboy Style
Yeah, I wanna go Cowboy Style

credits

from What I'm Lookin' For, track released March 21, 2015
Dan Weber: Lead Vocals and Acoustic Guitar
Anna Tivel: Fiddle
David Lipkind: Harmonica
Rob Stroup: Percussion

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Dan Weber Richardson, Texas

Dan Weber is an Award Winning songwriter who's been described as "reminiscent of early John Prine."

In 2019, Dan was the winner of the prestigious Woody Guthrie songwriting contest and in 2021 he was named a rare 4 time finalist in the legendary Kerrville ‘New Folk’ songwriting competition.

In 2022, he released 'The Way the River Goes', his best work yet. Dan currently lives near Dallas, Texas.
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