Play song 3:53
The Ballard of Palindrome
Riders In The Sky
Album: A Great Big Western Howdy
Artist biography
And now some words about a show coming on the CBC television network
There are campfire legends that the plains men spin
Of a man who was nothing like Palidin
Couldn't ride couldn't shoot but he won his fame
Cause everything he said said backwards was the same
Palindrome Palindrome what's in a name
Palindrome Palindrome backwards the same
Yes, Palindrome, no one knew where he came from and nobody cared
He rode into town one day from out of the west armed not with six guns a long rifel a whip an knife a chain saw or some other exicitic wepon,
No his only means of self defence was his snappy little straw hat and his uncanny ability to speak only in sentences which when spelled backwards are exactly the same as when they were spelled forward. Here's a scene from a fourthcoming episode of Palendrome.
Howdy Strainger
Mam
Well what's your name partner?
Madam, I'm Adam
Well how'd you get into town, I didn't see a horse?
A Toyota
Sounds like you have a little sinus problem
Tons o snot
Hey Doc, how about a little drink for my new friend here?
Well he sure could use it look at that, his mouths hanging wide open
In it, ram a martini
Sorry stranger, no hard liquor here, would you like some wine or some kinda beer?
Lager sir is regal
Well that's fine, say you must be hungry, oh ho, your not trying to loose some weight on one of them fasts are ya?
Doc, note, I dissent, a fast never prevents a fatness, I diet on cod.
Ah, sorry to tell ya we're outa cod. Look you got two choices, Itialian or delli, what'll it be?
Go hang a salami, I'm a lasagna hog!
Well find then, for desert we could hail the young fresh fruit vender over there.
Yo, banana boy
I supose your on your way out to the big new O.J. Sympson theme park?
DNA Land?
Stranger you got a snappy answer for everything. Don't you ever ask yourself the speritial questions in life?
Do geese see god?
Why I never thought of that one. Who's that waiving at you over there?
Bob
Naw next to him
Pop
The woman!
Lil
The other one
Anna
The other one
Ava
The other one
Eve
Well now he's leaving
So Ida, adios.
Strainger, I'm getting tired of this.
Huh?
Reach for the sky!
Draw o coward.
What's the trouble there strainger?
Snug guns
Ha ha, guess I got the drop on you then
A man, a plan a canal Panama
Got me with that snappy littel straw hat.
Ah ha!
Oh, Palendrome, my hero. Would you join me in my room for lunch?
Sex at noon taxes.
Yes, Palendrome, Staring Bob Autobob as Palendrome and Meg Jim as Sis. Check your local station for time and tempeture, remember Palendrome, he gets em coming and going.
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