Chinese Cowboy Hats

CHINESE COWBOY HATS I was drivin' west in a flat-bed Ford from Nashville Drinkin' drivin' singin' songs of you How you broke my heart and tore it all to pieces Leavin' me lonely desp'rate and blue When I crossed the Mississippi outta Memphis It was Christmas time with magic in the air I thought that maybe if I prayed to Elvis He'd help me find a way to show I cared! By the time I got some gas out there in Tulsa In a truck stop bar high up the Okie plains I drank some beers and then I heard the jukebox Playin' Blue Eyes Cryin' in the Rain That's when I saw it glowing in the gift shop On the clearance shelf by a heart-shaped picture frame The only thing you've said you've ever wanted A cowboy hat whose stitches wrote your name! But it was a Chinese Chinese Chinese cowboy hat I wanna ask you pardner What could be worse than that? Oh a Chinese Chinese Chinese cowboy hat! What has this country come to Ain't we better than that? So I threw it back and drove to Amarillo Hunting hats from the good ol' USA Wrangler Levi Stetson Tony Lama The Real McCoy's a price I'd gladly pay! On the edge of town in the darkness glowed a billboard It said Western Sale- Low Prices Everyday So I went inside to check out all the labels And this is what the labels here did say! They said Chinese Chinese Chinese cowboy hats! I wanna ask you pardner How'd we'd get to that? With them Chinese Chinese Chinese cowboy hats What's this country come to Who're the dirty rats? What have they done In Washington? Those bureaucrats They want our guns! To spoil our fun Beneath the sun Throw out those bums This 'lection! So I ran outside and fired up my flat-bed Put the pedal to the metal to blaze the Western trails! Gonna prove to you how much I really love you That cowboy hat's become my Holy Grail! Now I don't know much about those folks in China Hong Kong Chungking Peking Shanghai too But they're working for those Wall Street corporations And they'll never know what it means to buckaroo! In their Chinese Chinese Chinese cowboy hats! I wanna ask you pardner How did we get so fat? In those Chinese Chinese Chinese cowboy hats What's this country come to? Gimme a baseball bat! GONG