The Killers The Cowboy's Christmas Ball

boy i've been on the ladder
where the trick waters flow
where the cattle are a grazing
and the spanish ponies grow
where the northerns come on whistling
from behind the neutral strip
and the prairie dogs are sneezing
as if they had "the grip"
but the coyotes come a howling
"round the ranches after dark
and the mocking-birds are singin'...