On a highway thru the desert beneath an over pass   Sat two hikers just watchin' cars go by   Now one was wearin' sandles with straggly matted hair   Rose colored glasses for his eyes      Now the other was a cowboy he'd been down on his luck   Lost his money at the Tuson rodeo   And he sat beside what remained of his trusty pickup truck   And like the hippie now he's thumbin' down the road      Some folks don't realize that it's a well know fact   Cowboy's and hippies ain't never got along   Was it just coincidence or some weird act of fate   That brought these two together on the road      They sat there without talking while the morning sun rose high   When a hot desert breeze commenced to blow   And the fragrance of the incense and six weeks without a bath   Finally drifted down and reached the cowboy's nose      Well man that really did it he couldn't take no more   And he tied his old bandana around his face   He said you greasy stinking hippie you'd put a skunk to shame   Boy you're a discrace to the human race      Now the hippie just sat there and gave the cowboy a smile   Said man you don't smell so sweet yourself   Well I'm not too sure what that green stuff is on your boots and on your jeans   But whew it's enough to make a buzzard belch      The cowboy said now listen I ain't gonna that that stuff from you   No long haired freaks gonna talk to me that way get up   Well the hippie said, now hold on man, what good's that gonna do   You know fighting never settles nothing anyway      Now we both love our freedom and we'll answer to no man   And you've heard it said to thine own self be true   We're just a couple of free spirts drifting across the land   Doing exactly what we want to do       Said now me I got my things and you you got yours   And I don't see why we can't get along   They say the closest thing to freedom is livin' on the road   In a country were freedom's almost gone      Well the cowboy, he just stood up there and never said a word   But you know this hippie sure made a lot of sense   They shook hands and parted as a truck pulled to the side   And the hippie he went East and I went West