Keyboard Cowboy

by Howard Rotberg

(based on “Rhinestone Cowboy” by Larry Weiss and sung by Glen Campbell)

I’ve been tapping this keyboard so long
Singin’ the same old song
I know that every leftist and Islamist is wrong
Where hatred of my people is the name of the game
And nice guys get washed away like the snow in the rain.

There’s been a load of compromisin’
By folks who should know about the horizon
But I’m gonna be where the censors try to stifle me

Like a keyboard cowboy
Launching my essays from my Colt or Winchester
Like a keyboard cowboy
Getting rejection letters from people who little know
About ideologies and history

Well, I really don’t mind the game
And the smile can hide all the pain
But you’re down when you’re doing the research that’s takin’ the long way
And I dream of the things I’ll do or say
When the media finally gives me my 5 minutes of fame

There’ll be a load of compromisin’
On the road to my horizon
But I’m gonna be where censors try to stifle me

Like a keystone cowboy
Gettin’ rejection letters from people who little know
About ideologies and history

Like a keyboard cowboy
Launching my essays from my Colt or Winchester
Like a keyboard cowboy
Getting rejection letters from people who little know
About ideologies and history