Willie Nelson releases gay Cowboy Song...

Future #1 country hit?

Could this lead to all the gay cowboys coming out of the closet? Will we start seeing fuzzy pink cowboy hats?

Willie Nelson Releases Gay Cowboy Song
Feb 15 9:26 AM US/Eastern
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NASHVILLE, Tenn.


d62f48d4fe25@news.ap.org Country music outlaw Willie Nelson sang "Mammas Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Cowboys" and "My Heroes Have Always Been Cowboys" more than 25 years ago. He released a very different sort of cowboy anthem this Valentine's Day.

"Cowboys Are Frequently, Secretly (Fond of Each Other)" may be the first gay cowboy song by a major recording artist. But it was written long before this year's Oscar-nominated "Brokeback Mountain" made gay cowboys a hot topic.

Available exclusively through iTunes, the song features choppy Tex-Mex style guitar runs and Nelson's deadpan delivery of lines like, "What did you think all them saddles and boots was about?" and "Inside every cowboy there's a lady who'd love to slip out."

The song, which debuted Tuesday on Howard Stern's satellite radio show, was written by Texas-born singer-songwriter Ned Sublette in Sublette said he wrote it during the "Urban Cowboy" craze and always imagined Nelson singing it.

Someone passed a copy of the song to Nelson back in the late 1980s and, according to Nelson's record label, Lost Highway, he recorded it last year at his Pedernales studio in Texas.

Nelson has appeared in several Western movies and sings "He Was a Friend of Mine" on the "Brokeback Mountain" soundtrack.

I always thought them cowboys were queer, what with that big condom ring in their back pocket and all. Hellzbellz, even the names of their bars are queer: LONG-HORN, DODGE-HOUSE, DONNY-Gay's.

jk

I had a copy of that song awhile back from a Houston radio station, but I didn't know how to get a copy onto here. It is pretty hilarious!!

I had a copy of that song awhile back from a Houston radio station, but I didn't know how to get a copy onto here. It is pretty hilarious!!

Stereo posting... kewl...~~

Stereo posting... kewl...~~