Urban Cowboys and Lockdown Lager

Don Woods

The song this week has a story to it....I was asked to write it for a bloke in Birmingham who was going to put a huge country and western show show on and bring stars over from the States and have rodeos etc etc.....his name was Brian "Sundance" Brooks and he had a shop which sold cowboy gear called "Urban Cowboy"....as the cowboy thing was big in the midlands....I was commissioned to write and record the song and put it on vinyl with his name as the singer (as he couldn't sing).....I went down to Birmingham to a big meeting about this huge happening with all these high flyers from London talking about their planes and boats and getting involved in this amazing event.....one look at "Sundance" told me he was a conman.....so I said I would make the record and sort out the vinyls but I wanted paying up front....despite the gasps of disbelief I got the money and did the record.....before I actually delivered it Mr."Sundance" Brooks had vanished with all the investment money and hasn't been seen since....that's showbiz.....so here it is the record that never was "Urban Cowboy"..