Name: Deadeye Dick
Duration: 2 min 13 s
Channel: Steve Brooks
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Dick Cheney's hunting accident, channeled through Marty Robbins.

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Steve Brooks

Cross two famous guys named Brooks - Garth and Mel - and you get Austin folksinger Steve Brooks. He's got a song for every occasion, from the sublime to the

Cross two famous guys named Brooks - Garth and Mel - and you get Austin folksinger Steve Brooks. He's got a song for every occasion, from the sublime to the ridiculous and back. His tunes range from comic commentary and crackerbarrel philosophy to lyrical love ballads and sharp-edged snapshots of Texas and the world.

Song Info

Genre

Acoustic • Acoustic Folk

Charts

#14,566 today Peak #60

#3,223 in subgenre Peak #2

Author

Steve Brooks

Rights

2006 Steve Brooks

Uploaded

February 15, 2006

Track Files

MP3

MP3 2.0 MB • 128 kbps • 2:13

Story behind the song

This song won the Dick Cheney Impromptu Songwriting Contest at the 2006 Folk Alliance convention.

Lyrics

Above the Rio Grande
They tell a scary tale
About the meanest hombre
To ever hunt a quail.
Through the bushes, see him scurry
With a shotgun in his hand.
He never hits a birdie,
But he always gets his man.

CHORUS
So find the nearest building
When you see him point and click
And hide your wife and children
From the outlaw, Deadeye Dick.

Now, the pigeons and the pheasants,
They have no need to fear.
But if you’re a Texas resident,
The buckshot’s stopping here.
The angles he can figure
When he has them in his sights.
He steady with the trigger,
But he pulls it to the right.

Now he’s good at riding shotgun,
But he’s bad at taking aim.
He was gunning for Bin Laden,
But instead, he hit Hussein.
The next time, I’m just hoping,
When a quail he tries to flush
His double barrel he’s toting
On a hunting trip with Rush.