You hardly know a day goes by In the cardboard cutout sundown The moon popped up like a gallery duck Sipped up gold from the sunny cup And longhorns sawed the buggy grass And a cowboy blew a harp sitting on his chapped ass And the prairie flowers didn't look a bit queer And the stars struck the sand cartwheeled and poked in the prairie A cactus juice stand the only place the crows couldn't land The bluebottle flies were as big as the cowboy's eyes And their buzz was as loud as rattlers A fire engine red whistle blows raspberries In a cloud of whipped steam A ********** ran out black patent yarn stinkbug hoops From above a living mail thriving dot In perfect sympathy with the cardboard cutout sundown You hardly know a day goes by In the cardboard cutout sundown