I have been with the best that the bastards could muster 
From Danny the Dildo to Sidney the Snake 
And I feel like a working girl pausing to wonder 
Just how much screwin' the spirit can take 

I said, "Willie old buddy, please tell me again 
The reason to keep goin' on." 
He said, "There's no harder words to say over a friend 
Than they done you so righteously wrong 
They stopped you from singing your song" 

He was our hero, boys, he took the bullet 
But he went down swingin' his fist from the floor 
You can ask any working girl south of the border 
Sam Peckinpah era un hombre for sure 

Willie old buddy please tell me again 
The reason to keep goin' on 
He said, "There's no harder words to say over a friend 
Than they done you so righteously wrong 
They stopped you from singin' your song." 

But not me.