From the recordings Cowboy Simple and River Don't Lie (To Me)
Here’s a song we wrote about banjos and about the rivers and valleys and hollows they come from. Mostly, I suppose It’s about wanting to be some place, any place than where you are – about being in a place and feeling out of place. All archetypes of the country music genre come together in this song which is about being crushed by the things around you and movement up and out and away. References to places and cities that could be any place or any city anywhere in the world.”
What's the plural for banjo? Banjos? Banjoes? Or is it Banji? That’s one burning question you didn’t know you needed to ask. And country-funk-disco band Cowboy Simple are ready to help. Technically, grammatically speaking you simply add an ‘s’ to the word banjo. Some folks add an ‘es’ as in banjoes, But the most standard form is banjos. Case closed. However Cowboy Simple reckon you should do it a little different. And in their new song River Don’t Lie Cowboy Simple are staking their claim for banji.There’s something liberating in that isn’t there? And when it comes down to it that’s what this whole song is about – freedom. Freedom with a capital F. “F you I wanna be free”, freedom. The feeling that you get when you need to move on. When you’ve had enough and you just need to be any place but where you are. And its about the truth you find in the simplest things when the world feels very post-truth here’s a song about something positive and elemental – water that flows and is never the same but in another way is always the same. That’s the spirit of country music or country music Cowboy Simple style.
Lyrics
Out in West Virginia
Feeling like it’s time to go home
Took up both o’ma banjee
Told big mama I’m gone
I Went up to New York City
But I had me enough o’that
feel like I can’t win
Feel like I gotta get out
I gotta move on yeah
I Gotta be free
I gotta move on now
I Gotta be me
I Did my time in a Tennessee
There’s a girl there I did know
If God can’t save my mortal soul
Then the devil done take me whole
Talahasse don’t lie none
She sure don’t lie to me
Time can’t change that big old river
And time change can’t change me
I gotta move on
I gotta be free
I gotta move on now
I gotta be me
I gotta move on
I gotta be free
I gotta move on now
I gotta be me
Out in West Virginia
Feeling like it’s time to go home
I Took up both o’ma banjee
I Told big mama I’m gone
I gotta move on
I gotta be free
I gotta move on now
I gotta be me
I gotta move on
I gotta be free
I gotta move on now
I gotta be me
Out in West Virginia
I Feel like I gotta go home
Took up both o’ma banjee
And I Told big mama I’m gone

