So You Want To Be A Cowboy
October, 1984
Willie was doing all our favorite tunes, and Rita and I sat rapt as he warbled through My Heroes Have Always Been Cowboys, Red Headed Stranger and On the Road Again."Goddamn," said Rita, "he's so cute, I could just eat him with a spoon." Being Texan, she talks like that.I wanted to eat him with a spoon, too, and we had the time of our lives until the cataclysm occurred: Willie Nelson sang his hit song To All the Girls I've Loved Before. This is an awful, syrupy, glutinous con...
