In Western films, the drifter archetype often performs a farewell ballad to express enduring love and loyalty to a community they have protected, using poetic lyrics about roses, moonlight, and time passing to convey emotional depth while maintaining the genre's characteristic melancholic tone.
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The Drifter Sings to the Townsfolk and Says Goodbye | Guns of a Stranger
Added:That was for my son. Will >> come on, wake up. You're too big big for me to carry you anyway.
Get out.
Things are going to be different around here now.
>> Oh, sure. Listen to the old gold break.
Go. Things are going to be different.
Yeah. Well, after what Virginia told me was going to happen down here and you were going to be in on it, I thought if I to come down here and wet nurse you and get things straightened out. Come on, let's lock them up. Hey, come on.
>> Hey, folks, I want to make an important announcement. My granddaughter out at our ranch tomorrow is going to throw a wing, a barbecue. She's going to have pink lemonade for the ladies. We're going to have fruit jar whiskey for the men. And we going to have dancing and singing. And it's going on till way in the we small hours a night. That is my announcement and all of you are invited.
That's it, boys.
Let's cut out that kitchen sweat music.
Let's get into some real singing. Hey, how about the drifter singing something?
>> You heard him, drifter.
>> Yeah. Come on.
>> The drifter is going to do it for you, boy.
All right.
>> How many roses have faded and died?
Virginia, how many tears since I've walked by your side, Virginia?
Too many moonlights have come and gone.
Too many sunups and too many sundowns.
Too many teardrops and too many roses have died.
I'm like I was sad like the day we parted.
I'm just the same. Lonely and still brokenhearted.
Maybe I'm older, but nothing's changed.
Love grows no colder. I still feel the same. Life has been empty, but I've learned to live in Virginia.
Oh, Virginia.
When will I stop loving you? Will it go on forever?
>> Oh, Virginia, when will these dreams that I dream of you stop? Maybe never.
How many times when your vision appears, I've tried to hold you and you disappear.
And I find the arms that once held you are empty.
>> Virgin About time for me to go, I guess.
>> Take care of yourself.
>> Sure will. You do the same. Bobby, >> keep in touch with us, partner. We'll be back.
>> See you. B.
>> Nice meeting you.
>> Good luck to you and Alfred with your match. Thanks, sir. Very much. See you later.
>> Okay, Suge. It's good seeing you again.
>> Thank you. Come back to see us.
>> Sure will.
>> Thomas, sure glad I got to meet you, bastard.
>> Goodbye, son.
>> Sure enough.
Damn it.
You know, Dan, travel around a lot.
Only known you about 5 weeks or so.
You know, you're about the best partner I ever had, I guess.
>> Goodbye, Drifter.
>> Goodbye, Dina.
the Do you really have to go?
>> Why do you keep drifting?
Well, something makes me want to see what's on the other side of the mountain.
>> Do you think we'll ever see you again?
Someday maybe.
Then I guess we'll just have to look for you when we see you coming.
I'll remember you as long as I live.
Remember, I'll always be on this side of the mountain.
Goodbye, Virginia.
Goodbye, drifter.
Sometimes I find I would like to stay and then something tells me I'm wrong.
A pretty.
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