Favourite Blogs and a Favourite Song

I've added some links to the sidebar, namely groovy blogs and a list of current reads.

My favourite song lately is "Coyotes" (played at the end of Grizzly Man); the end always chokes me up. Here are the lyrics.

Coyotes
Lyrics by Bob McDill, sung by Don Edwards

Was a cowboy I knew in south Texas
His face was burnt deep by the sun
Part history, part sage, part mesquit
He was there when Poncho Villa was young.
And he'd tell you a tale of the old days
When the country was wild all around
Sit out under the stars of the Milky Way
And listen while the coyotes howl.

Chorus

And they go... poo yip poo yip poopoodi hoo di yip poo
di yip poopoo yip poo yip poopoo
di hoo di yip poo di yip poo

Now the long horns are gone
And the drovers are gone
The Comanches are gone
And the outlaws are gone
Geronimo's gone
And Sam Bass is gone
And the lion is gone
And the Red Wolf is gone.

Well he cursed all the roads and the oil men
And he cursed the automobile
Said this is no place for an hombre like I am
In this new world of asphalt and steel.
Then he'd look off some place in the distance
At something only he could see
He'd say all that's left now of the old days
These damned old coyotes and me.

[Chorus]

Now the long horns are gone
And the drovers are gone
The Comanches are gone
And the outlaws are gone
Now Quantro is gone
Stan Watee is gone
And lion is gone
And the Red Wolf is gone.

One morning they searched his adobe
He disappeared without even a word
But that night as the moon crossed the mountain
One more coyote was heard.

And he'd go poo yip poo yip poopoodi hoo di yip poo
di yip poopoo yip poo yip poopoo di hoo di yip poo di yip poo
poo yip poo yip poopoodi hoo di yip poo di yip poo
poo yip poo yip poopoo di hoo di yip poo di yip poo