Nobody's Child - Mark Knopfler
Lyrics by:Mark Knopfler
Composed by:Mark Knopfler
Produced by:Mark Knopfler/Guy Fletcher
The ragged kid nobody wanted
Left alone
To ramble wild
Long ago
He was abandoned
Nobody's child
Never smiles
And never chatters
Never quarrels
Or complains
Grown as hard
As the Sierras
And the western plains
Come a'cow cow yicky yicky yea
A'come a'cow cow yicky yicky yea
Learned to swing
A broken bottle
Learned to use
His fists and knife
In the bar rooms
And bordellos
Of his life
He drifted down
Towards the borders
The sky was dark
But it did not rain
Came the meanest
Pistoleros
In the western plains
He fell in
With these desperadoes
Thieves and killers
Every one
Prizes hanging
From their saddles
With their guns
Come a'cow cow yicky yicky yea
A'come a'cow cow yicky yicky yea
The ragged kid
Nobody wanted
Left alone
To ramble wild
Now he rides
Beside the Devil
Nobody's child
Come a'cow cow yicky yicky yea
A'come a'cow cow yicky yicky yea