Cowboys and Indians (Draft)
The audio for 1 Pazham Neeyappa is a Tamil movie song accompanies the scene in the devotional film Thiruvilaiyadal in which Lord Murugan leaves his heavenly abode in anger over parental injustice in the competition for the mango of enlightenment. Legendary carnatic vocalist K.B. Sunderambal, playing the poet Avvaiyar admonishes Murugan for his failure to recognize that he is, in himself, the prized fruit of enlightenment. "Thou art the fruit, The fruit of Divine knowledge art thou."
The audio for 2 Indian Cowboy is Guy Clark's rendition of Joe Ely's ballad The Indian Cowboy which is a is allegory of the tragedy of the Americas.
The Indian Cowboy
If you ever go out to the circus
Where the Wallendas walk on the wire
I'll tell you a tale to remember
When the white horses leap rings of fire
It was a cold night in Oklahoma
The show was about to begin
The animals they were all restless
When the star horse she broke from her pen
She was a mare of high spirit
Just like a whore on Saturday night
She's kickin' and buckin' past the men who were brushin'
The elephants lyin' on their sides
Next to the tent sat some lanterns
They were dangerously close to the hay
That mare headed straight for those lanterns
Some fool had put there by mistake
Then up stepped some Indian Cowboy
His lasso went whirlin' throught the air
In the full dead middle of danger
He roped that runaway mare
Then the elephants raised up their trumpets
Two of them broke from their chains
Stampeded that Indian Cowboy
Who had saved the big top from flames
So if you ever go out to the circus
Where the Wallendas walk on the wire
You just remember that Indian Cowboy
When the white horses leap rings of fire
Music and by Lyrics Joe Ely, sung by Joe Clarke