I’ve got gold fever 120 degrees

help: I need somebody
she’s tied to the train tracks (yellow dress and white bloomers)
the cowboy hidden in the meadow watching a private show some girls bathing in the river
a pall mall cigarette hangs from the hero’s mouth
(you can just barely make it out)

help: I need somebody
she shakes taca taca to the rhythm of the machine woo woo
she calls for help (black garters under the bloomers)
the cowboy smokes and watches/                                           serene
the startled river girls listen and cover their girl bits
they dissolve into mud
gaudy gallop down the mountain to rescue the damsel
backlit
at a trot cold beer from the motel what more my love
the rescue

and the railroad getting closer like a bull about to charge
and for added drama — far west no one like ya —
a rattlesnake looking for someone to bite

but the hero saves the damsel: and night falls
now they make love
and his horse chews contentedly in the barn
alongside a tractor                         a rocking chair on the porch
an ousted dog                                  farther off a mail post
and the rattlesnake cooking over coals

there is so much joy
the moon is big and full
a steer skull beside a cactus a little gurgling from the river water
the little milk girls dance: mmh: the moon sets
and I whistle
help: I need somebody
help: not just anybody
they dance naked milky
and once in a while they cheer