Oh Lone Stranger is a song from the VeggieTales episode Moe and the Big Exit. It was sung by the Cowboy Quartet and the workers.
Lyrics[]
Original[]
Specks: In the great Painted Desert a long time ago,
twixt the feet of the Rockies and the Big Horn Plateau...
Specks and Blue: ..lived a man of great callin', a man of great skill.
In the City of DodgeBall, they sing of him still.
All: Oh, Lone Stranger! Your mask hides your face, who you are we can't say.
Oh, Lone Stranger! They sing High-ho Sliver, away!
Specks: To tell the story of the Lone Stranger, you gotta start with the first big hero of Dodgeball City. That'd be Little Joe.
(We are shown clips from The Ballad of Little Joe, albeit given an old-film effect to represent a flashback.)
Specks: (V.O.) Now, Little Joe is what you might call, uh, a visionary. But his dreams ticked off his brothers who sold him off to a group of desperadoes.
Little Joe: Oh, dear.
Specks: (V.O.) And after travelling in a ziggy-zaggy line, he ended up in DodgeBall City, where his hard work and scrupulous characters, heh, heh...landed him in the pokey! But, with God's help, he got the mayor out of a bind by figuring out that hard times were on the way. The mayor granted him a reprieve and a job in emergency management. Little Joe organized the town, gathered up seven years worth of grub, and saved the day.
Townspeople: Yahoo!
Specks: (V.O.) He also saved his own family. He forgave his brothers for selling him off and set them all up with nice lives right there in DodgeBall.
(The clips of Little Joe end, as we fade to another flashback of a former DodgeBall City. After a few seconds, the scene fades to a more recent view of DodgeBall City, in which it is now bigger and more populated.)
Specks: (V.O.) But times changed. Well, after Little Joe and his brothers passed, their descendants multiplied like prairie dogs, 'till the new mayor and the people of the town started to worry that they'd be overrun. So they set task masters over the sons of Little Joe to afflict them with heavy burdens and keep 'em down.
(We see a long line of peas as their task master Wyatt (Mr. Lunt) hands each one of them shovels. Then we get a montage of them digging the Grand Canyon, building Monument Valley, and painting the Painted Desert.)
All: They set 'em to diggin' with shovels and picks,
and drove 'em to building with boulders and bricks,
'till tired and battered, they fell to their knees, and cried to the heavens...
All peas: Deliver us, please!
All: Oh, Lone Stranger! Your mask hides your face, who you are we can't say.
Oh, Lone Stranger! We sing High-ho Sliver, away!
(As they're singing, Wyatt motions them to get back to work.)
All: Oh, Lone Stranger! We work like the Dickens but don't get no pay!
Oh, Lone Stranger! Please come take us away!
We really don't want to stay.
Monument worker: I've had a really bad day.
All: Singin' High-ho Sliver, away!
Reprise[]
All: In the great Painted Desert a long time ago,
twixt the feet of the Rockies and the Big Horn Plateau
lived a man of great callin', a man of great skill
to trust the Almighty, His plan to fulfill!
Sally: You did it, Moe!
Moe: Nah, God did. I just followed the plan.
All: Oh, Lone Stranger! Your mask hides your face, who you are we can't say.
Oh, Lone Stranger! We sing High-ho Sliver, away!
(Everyone starts heading off into the wilderness.)
Jean-Claude: It's time for a manna buffet!
All: We sing High-ho Sliver.....away!!
(The singers pop into the frame.)
Singers: High-ho, away!!!
Fun Facts[]
Real-World References[]
- The Painted Desert is a United States desert of badlands in the Four Corners area of Arizona, running from near the east end of Grand Canyon National Park and southeast into Petrified Forest National Park.
- The Rocky Mountains, also known as the Rockies, are a major mountain range in Mount Elbert, Colorado and the largest mountain system in North America.
- The Bighorn Basin is a plateau region and intermontane basin, approximately 100 miles (160 km) wide, in north-central Wyoming in the United States.
Gallery[]
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