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Bruce Dickinson - Obras Sanitarias, Buenos Aires, Argentina, Mar. 11, 1995, during the ''Balls to Picasso Tour'' 1994-1995. This is my second version of Argentina concert. You can find my first version in my Bruce Dickinson playlist.

Sacred Cowboys (B. Dickinson/ Roy Z)

Bruce Dickinson : Vocals
Chris Dale: Bass Guitar
Alex Dickson : Guitar
Alessandro Elena : Drums

[Lyrics]

(woo, hey)
Mira, mira, mira, andale, andale, yeah-ow!

[spoken:]
With a sense of irony, everyone you see
Is chasing their illusions
Take a dive, or sink, or swim
But in the end you're in the same pollution
In your world, escape is swift
The nonsense list is all you need to know
In the land of dreams, you make the right connections
Then you'll be the hero...ecstasy
The cult of 'me' provides our institutions
You can live forever with a grave that stands
Where people used to function
You can join the saviors of our culture
Vultures circling overhead my sky
Like the sin of gluttony won't set you free
(but betty ford can help you try)

You can get all the things you never needed
You can sell people crap and make them eat it

But where is our john wayne?
Where's our sacred cowboy now?
Where are the indians on the hill?
There's no indians left to kill

[spoken:]
People die with oxygen
And all their money can't afford a breath
People starving everywhere
And staring in the face of death
Prostitutes and politicians
Lying in their bed together
You can be the savior of the poor
Making up the policies to open up the back door...

You can get all the things you never needed
You can sell people crap and make them eat it

Where is our john wayne?
Where's our sacred cowboys now?
Where are the indians on the hill?
There's no indians left to kill

Where is our john wayne?
Where's our sacred cowboy now?
Where are the indians on the hill?
There's no indians left to kill

You can get all the things you never needed
You can sell people crap and make them eat it
Eat it

There is no john wayne
Where's our sacred cowboys now?
Where are the indians on the hill?
There's no indians left to kill

Where is our john wayne?
Where's our sacred cowboy now?
Where are the indians on the hill?
There's no indians left to...
Kill
.......................................

''Sacred Cowboys'' is a song from Bruce Dickinson's second solo album, Balls to Picasso

Bruce Dickinson Interview - October 1994 : "Sacred Cowboys," was written by Roy and myself in the studio. It started sounding like, "Run To The Hills," so Roy and I went down to the pub and got readjusted and came back and finished it in 20 minutes. "1000 Point Of Light," was taken from one of George Bush's speeches. "Laughing In The Hiding Bush," is about my youngest son, Austin, playing with his cousins. He said, "Look, daddy, I'm laughing in the hiding bush." I thought it sounded cool, so I wrote it down and Roy came up with a cool riff. It made me think of all of these fu**ed up things kids think of. It makes me think of what we teach out kids. ''

''Balls to Picasso'' is a Hard rock album released in 1994 and is the second effort in Bruce Dickinson's solo career. The ballad "Tears of the Dragon" stayed for many months on top the of charts in countries like Brazil where Dickinson has a large fanbase.
This record marked the beginning of Dickinson's collaborations with Roy Z, who would work on many of Dickinson's later albums including Accident of Birth, The Chemical Wedding and Tyranny of Souls. Stylistically it departs from Tattooed Millionaire but is still more traditional-sounding than the follow-up album Skunkworks released in 1996. Later, Dickinson said that he and Roy Z were talked into making the album less heavy than it should have been.

Dickinson started working on his second solo album while still in Iron Maiden. For the very first recording sessions he recruited the british band Skin. Not satisfied with the style of the effort, Dickinson aborted the recording. His next attempt at a second solo album was a collaboration with producer Keith Olsen. Dickinson decided to scrap this project as well and teamed up with guitarist Roy Z and his band Tribe Of Gypsies to write and record Balls To Picasso. Songs from the previous recording sessions later resurfaced as b-sides on singles from Balls To Picasso and subsequently also as bonus tracks on the album's 2005 extended edition. (Source: Wikipedia)