Stone Blind Horses

There are some saints that have been forgotten 

Like most of my drunken prayers 

They say there’s a heaven somewhere above the yonder 

Where there’s no more crosses to bear 

Now there’s ghosts along the highways 

And there’s storms out on the seas 

My only hope is somewhere in that heaven 

Someone says a prayer for me 

I been riding stone blind horses 

Never seen a reason to believe 

Hey sweet Genevieve say a prayer for me 

For wild young cowboys, old drunks, paramours and thieves 

The high slurred whistle of a redwing blackbird 

Sounds like he’s singing 'oh that I might die' 

It’s a song for those who have fallen 

Unrepentant with no more alibis

By Ray Wylie Hubbard, 

From the album The Ruffian's Misfortune.