Lone Ranger Days - Janis Ian

Cowboys and Indians hot on my trail

Out on the high Western plains

Riding the Pony Express with the mail

'Til mama called me away

Back in the Lone Ranger days

My little brother took over the route

My cap guns and hobby horse reins

He was just five when I went off to school

And that’s where he stayed

Back in the Lone Ranger days

And the neighbor kids laughed at him

They called him strange

His body grew older

But he never changed

I went to college and married one day,

But he and his rocking horse ride never changed

Back in the Lone Ranger days

We got a letter from home yesterday

With his favorite crayon, he’d painted his name

Mom’s not that old, still she’s turning grey

But he and his buckaroo chaps never change

He’s back in the Lone Ranger days

Hi-O Silver, away

And the neighbor kids laughed at him

They called him strange

His body grew older

But he never changed

I went to college and married one day,

But he and his rocking horse ride never changed

Back in the Lone Ranger days