From the recording Mad Dog , Emilio and Me
Hey, Mad Dog! Hey Emilio! Are you still out there ridin' wild and free?
This track features the magnificent Olises Narango on drums. Tommy harmonica playing is equal mesmerizing. It's a legendary story of convenient short lived camaraderie born in hard that becomes life long friendship.
Lyrics
Mad Dog , Emilio and Me by Billy Proulx
Mad Dog and Emilio were ridin' wild and free
Some say they were outlaws, well you couldn't tell that by me
When I needed water out their canteens came
Mad Dog and Emilio had game
It was during the conflagration, nobody was safe
Regulators seeking vengeance were all about the place
They knew the way, I rode along all the way to Bowie
Mad Dog, Emilio and Me
Mad Dog got his knick name after he rode west
Fightin' off Comancheros by scarring them half to death
Emilio was a Shaman who posed as his valet
Mad Dog and Emilio could play
After the Range Wars ended they headed up northeast
They could hold out in high country twenty odd years at least
I lost their trail in the San Juans some where near Ouray
And I reckon that's were they are today
Mad Dog and Emilio were ridin' wild and free
Some say they were outlaws and I guess that might be
But I had their back and they had mine and we lived to ride again
Mad Dog and Emilio were my friends
Mad Dog and Emilio were my friends