As soon as I saw the prompt for this mornings Day #11 Song of the Day Challenge: Name A Song You Never Get Tired Of Hearing I knew I wanted to share Moe Bandy — Bandy the Rodeo Clown. I believe I should have grown up in the Rodeo.
Couldn’t you see me in the Rodeo? I am not sure I would want to be a Clown as I might have to deal with the Bulls.I wonder what I could do? I could watch the performances?
“Bandy the Rodeo Clown” is a song co-written and recorded by American country music artisits Sanger D. Shafer and Lefty Frizzel and made famous by Moe Bandy.
“Bandy the Rodeo Clown” was released in June 1975 as the title track from his third album and was his final single from GRC Records. But that didn’t stop Moe Bandy
According to AllMusic journalist Stephen Thomas Erlewine, the song and its parent album began “to hint at the good-natured persona that would dominate his Columbia Records.” The song casts Bandy as himself in the title role, a rodeo clown who laughs through heartache and the physical pain of the job.
“Bandy … ,” along with several of his GRC single releases, was included in several CBS and Sony Records-issued greatest hits packages of Bandy’s music that otherwise focused on his later 1970’s and 1980’s Columbia material.
The song was also one of several songs in Bandy’s catalog — “Rodeo Romeo” and “Someday Soon” were two others—that used rodeo story lines to tie in with the complexity of relationships and heartbreak.
Lyrics:
Who was once a bull-hooking son of a gun
Now who keeps a pint hid out behind chute number one
Who was riding high till a pretty girl rode him to the ground
Any kid knows where to find me, I’m Bandy the rodeo clown In the riding and the roping I was closing in on number one
Now in dreams at night I ride on that silver saddle I never won
Since she left me the whiskey takes me to the rodeo grounds
But the ride that woman took me on broke a whole lot more than this old cowboy’s bones
While the tears on my makeup melts my painted smile into a frown
The crowd thinks I’m a dandy, I’m Bandy the rodeo clown I could ride ’em all the bulls and the broncs knew I was boss
But the ride that woman took me on broke a whole
Lot more than this old cowboy’s bones
While the tears on my makeup melts my painted smile into a frown
The crowd thinks I’m a dandy, I’m Bandy the rodeo clown.
Thank you,
Glenda, Charlie and David Cates
