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Me and My Uncle. " Me and My Uncle ", often also written as " Me & My Uncle, " is a song composed by John Phillips of The Mamas and the Papas, and popularized in versions by Judy Collins and the Grateful Dead. It relates the journey of a narrator and his uncle from southern Colorado towards west Texas, involving standard cowboy song themes like ...
- Country Rock
- John Phillips
- 1963
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[Verse 5] One of them cowboys, he starts to draw And I shot him down, lord he never saw Shot me another, oh damn he won't grow old In the confusion, my uncle grabbed the gold And we high-tailed it ...
Shot me another, oh damn he won't grow old. In the confusion, my uncle grabbed the gold, And we high-tailed it down to Mexico. I love those cowboys, I love their gold, I loved my uncle, God rest his soul, Taught me good, Lord, Taught me all I know Taught me so well, I grabbed that gold And I left his dead ass there by the side of the road.
Mar 27, 2014 · Phillips’s other best-known songs include “California Dreamin’,” “Monday, Monday,” and “San Francisco (Be Sure To Wear Flowers in Your Hair).”. Bob Weir says he learned the song from “a hippie named Curly Jim,” who, according to Blair Jackson, must have been Curly Jim Cook, a member of the Bay Area band A.B. Skhy.
Songfacts®: John Phillips from The Mamas & The Papas wrote this song. In the liner notes to his solo album Phillips 66 (where his version of the song appears), it states: "John often used to tell the story behind 'Me And My Uncle.'. Years ago he began receiving publishing royalties from a song on a Judy Collins record with which he was unfamiliar.
