Buck Owens – Tall Dark Stranger, is a 1969 single written and recorded by Buck Owens. “Tall Dark Stranger” was Buck Owens’ twentieth number one on the country chart, spending a single week at the top and a total of thirteen weeks on the charts.
A video for the song was taped for the TV series Hee Haw, on which Owens was a co-host. The video is set in a wild west town, and during the musical bridge the song’s main theme – a handsome stranger, tall and dressed in black clothing, stealing the heart of a young man’s girlfriend and the woman riding off with him – is played out, said incident happening as Owens (cast as the protagonist) and the woman are walking out of a saloon. The video has since aired on Great American Country and CMT.
Buck Owens – Tall Dark Stranger
From the album Tall Dark Stranger
B-side “Sing That Kind of a Song”
Released July 21, 1969
Genre Country
Label Capitol
Songwriter(s) Buck Owens
Producer(s) Ken Nelson
Buck Owens – Tall Dark Stranger lyrics
Beware of a tall dark stranger
If he comes ridin’ into your town
A tall dark stranger is danger (danger)
So don’t let no stranger hang around
For he can capture the heart of a woman
With one glance from his flashing brown eyes
Like a bolt from the blue he can steal her from you
Then jump up on his pony and ride ride ride
So beware of a tall dark stranger…
If he comes ridin’ into your town
A tall dark stranger is danger (danger)
So don’t let no stranger hang around
They say a tall dark stranger is a demon
And that a devil rides closely by his side
With no warning he can strike like the thief in the night
Then jump up on his pony and ride, ride, ride
So beware of a tall dark stranger…
If he comes ridin’ into your town
A tall dark stranger is danger (danger)
So don’t let no stranger hang around
So don’t let no stranger hang around
