Cover of 1987 English re-release

Zachariah Soundtrack

1. We're the Crackers
2. All I Need

[Music by the James Gang, Doug Kershaw, the New York Rock Ensemble, White Lightnin', and Jimmie Haskell not included]

We're the Crackers

I hope we don't disturb your scene
Here below the border
But men who deal in loco weed
Don't care for law and order.

We shoot our guns and watch 'em run,
Sittin' high up in the saddle.
We smoke and fight and ride all night
But we won't punch no cattle.

I got a stallion
His name is Fred
And if you think that's funny Jack,
I'll blow off your head

We're the Crackers
We're the Crackers
We're the Crackers
We're the Crackers

We fought the federales
At the Mexicali jail
And we've been riding fourteen days
All down the dusty trail*

On the deserts and the prairies
Down the canyon side
We're wild and we're hairy
And we know how to ride.*

We're the Crackers
We're the Crackers
We're the Crackers
We're the Crackers

We used to operate our gang
From Waco to Killeen
The pigs from Amarillo
Tried so hard to blow our scene

The marshals and the rangers
Tried to shoot us down
The Utah vigilantes
Tried to run us out of town

We cut a bloody trail across
The dirty Rio Grande
We call ourselves the Crackers,
We're a rock n' roll band

I could start to tell you
Things I've heard out on the trails
It's understood among good thieves
Dead men tell no tales.

We're the Crackers
We're the Crackers
We're the Crackers
We're the Crackers

* Verse omitted from recorded version

All I Need

All I need to have a good time
Is a reefer, a woman and a bottle of wine
With those three things I don't need no sunshine
A reefer, a woman and a bottle of wine

All I want is to never grow old
I want to wash in a bathtub of gold
I want 97 kilos already rolled
I want to wash in a bathtub of gold

I want to light my cigars with ten-dollar bills
I'd like to have a cattle ranch in Beverly Hills
I'd like a bottle of redeye that's always filled
I'd like to have a cattle ranch in Beverly Hills

We're the Crackers copyright © 1971 by McDonald Music (BMI)
All I Need copyright © 1971 by Seafood Music (BMI)

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