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Oh prisoners, get up out a’ your homemade beds, Oh prisoners, get up out a’ your homemade beds.

And now the day and night are just the same

And now the light and dark don't have no name

And you just lay in bed without no game

And you just lay there sleepin' without no fame

But when you do awaken from your deep sleep The bed will disappear and you won’t even weep, You'll walk right outside without no name, You’ll walk right outside from where you came,

(DANA gets up slowly and yawns, then exits quietly. )

So prisoners, get up out a’ your homemade beds. Oh prisoners, get up out a’ your homemade heads.

(The song finishes, the band stops, peter turns off the radio as drake continues pacing, peter gets up slowly and crosses to the door, he slams the door shut and turns to drake; drake freezes in place staring at peter, who crosses to drake and stands over hint for a while, tapping the club in his palm, then suddenly raises the club to hit drake; there is a loud knock at the door, the LIGHTS BLACK OUT. )

COWBOY MOUTH

Characters

CAVALE: a chick who looks like a crow, dressed in raggedy black.

SLIM: a car who looks like a coyote, dressed in scruffy red. They are both bear to shit.

LOBSTER MAN

Cowboy Mouth was first performed at rhe Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh, on April 12, 1971. It was directed by Gordon Stewart, with the following cast:

SLIM:

cavale:

LOBSTER MAN:

Donald Sumpter Brenda Smiley Derek Wilson

It was subsequently given irs American premiere in a special performance at the American Place Theatre, New York, on April 29, 1971, as an afterpiece to Mr. Shepard's Back Bog Beast Bait. This performance was directed by Robert Glaudini, with the following cast:

slim: Sam Shepard

cavale: Parti Smith

lobster. man: RobcrtGlaudini

SCENE: 4 fucked-up bed center stage. Raymond, a dead crow, on the floor. Scattered all around on the floor is miscellaneous debris: hubcaps, an old tire, raggedy costumes, a boxful of ribbons, lots of letters, a pink telephone, a bottle of Nescafe, a hot plate. Seedy wallpaper with pictures of cowboys peeling off the wall. Photographs of Hank Williams and Jimmie Rodgers. Stuffed dolls, crucifixes. License plates from southern states nailed to the wall.

Travel poster of Panama. 4 funky set of drums to one side of the stage. An electric guitar and amplifier on the other side. Rum, beer, white lightning. Sears catalogue.

Cavale has kidnapped slim off the streets with an old . 45. (She wants to make him into a rock-and-roll star, but they fall in love. find them after one too many mornings. They're both mean as snakes. SLIM is charging around screaming words; CAVALE is rummaging through junk, yelling with a cracked throat. The lights come up on them in this state. )

slim: Wolves, serpents, lizards, gizzards, bad bladders, typhoons, tarantulas, whipsnakes, bad karma, Rio Bravo, Sister Morphine, go fuck yourself!

Cavale: Fucking dark in here. Fucking old black dog. You fucking. Where’s Raymond? Where’s Raymond, goddammit? Shit. Raymond, Raymond, where’s my crow, old black tooth?