
Willie Nelson - Cowboys Are Frequently, Secretly (Fond Of Each Other)
Mamas, don't let your babies grow up to be [gay] cowboys. Actually, rather than a cautionary tale, this is a plea for tolerance. And before you cry foul at Willie for jumping late onto the gay cowboy bandwagon, consider this: though he recorded this last year (before the film was released; Willie has a different song on the Brokeback Mountain soundtrack), the song was actually written by Ned Sublette in 1981, long before Annie Proulx wrote her short story. Think about it, too; Willie has always been an outlaw/liberal/anti-Nashville type, whether evading taxes, smoking pot, or protesting Bush, so it was only a matter of time. As far as the song itself goes, very nice picking (like Willie always does) and loads of excellent innuendo. Ultimately, the moral isn't even for tolerance of the gay cowboys, but the argument that all cowboys are, in fact, homosexual.
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