Nobody’s Child lyrics

The ragged kid nobody wanted,

Left alone to ramble wild.

Long ago he was abandoned,

Nobody's child.

Never smiles and never chatters,

Never quarrels or complains,

Grown as hard as the Sierras

And the Western Plains.

Come a'cow cow yicky yicky yea

A'come a'cow cow yicky yicky yea

Learned to swing a broken bottle,

Learned to use his fists and knife

In the bar rooms and bordellos

Of his life.

He drifted down towards the borders.

The sky was dark, but it did not rain.

Came the meanest pistoleros

In the Western Plains.

He fell in with these desperadoes,

Thieves and killers: every one.

Prizes hanging from their saddles

With their guns.

Come a'cow cow yicky yicky yea

A'come a'cow cow yicky yicky yea

The ragged kid nobody wanted,

Left alone to ramble wild.

Now he rides beside the Devil,

Nobody's child.

Come a'cow cow yicky yicky yea

A'come a'cow cow yicky yicky yea

• Artist:Mark Knopfler
• Album:Down the Road Wherever 2018