Karaoké The Cowboy in The Continental Suit Marty Robbins

Well he walks out in the arena all dressed up to the brim

Said he'd just came down from a place called Highland Rim

Well he said he came to ride the horse

The one they call The Brute

But he didn't look like a cowboy in his continental suit

We snickered at the way he dressed but he never said a word

He walks on by the rest of us as if he hadn't heard

A thousand bucks went to the man who could ride this wild cayuse

A meaner horse was never born than the one they called The Brute

The horse that he was lookin' for was in chute number eight

He walked up very slowly

Put his hand upon the gate

We knew he was a thoroughbred when he pulled his sack of Dukes from the inside pocket of his continental suit

Well he rolled hisself a quirly and he lit it standin' there

Blew himself a smoke ring and he watched it disappear

We thought he must be crazy when he opened up the gate

Standin' just inside was fifteen hundred pounds of hate

The Buckskin tried to run him down but the stranger was too quick

He stepped aside and threw his arms around the horse's neck

And he pulled himself up on the back of the horse they called

The Brute

Sat like he was born there in his continental suit

The Brute's hind-end was in the air

His front end on the ground

Kickin' and a-squealin'

Tryin' to shake this stranger down

But the stranger didn't give an inch

He came to ride The Brute

And he came to ride the buckskin in a continental suit

Well I turned around to look at Jim and he was watchin' me

He said I don't believe the crazy things I think I see

But I think I see the outlaw

The one they call The Brute ridden by a cowboy in a continental suit

The Brute came to a stand-still ashamed that he'd been rode by a city cowboy in some continental clothes

The stranger took his money and we don't know where he went

We don't know where he came from and we haven't seen him since

The moral of this story

Never judge by what they wear

Underneath some ragged clothes could be a millionaire

Everybody listen

Don't be fooled by this galoot

This sure 'nough bronc buster in a continental suit