Brian David Gilbert’s “Pumpkin Cowboy” and Tom Cardy’s “The Ballad of Smokin’ Joe Rudeboy” are at opposite ends of an extremely niche spectrum or alignment chart.

A young girl who’d seen it all

And grew up in a terrible place

I listened to the Ballad of Smokin’ Joe Rudeboy and it was the best thing I have ever heard.

So I decided to draw the main man’s daughter, I’m thinking about calling her Smokin’ Clo Rudeboy.

I wonder if Tom Cardy and Brian David Gilbert's collaboration came about after bonding over their songs about unconventional pacifist cowboys

The thing about The Ballad of Smokin’ Joe Rudeboy is that not only is it a deranged banger of a tune, it unlocks a power fantasy the listener probably didn’t even know existed: being so good at telling someone to fuck off forever that even people with guns back down.

The Ballad of Smokin' Joe Rudeboy

Smokin’ Joe Rudeboy!

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Birdhouse In Your Soul : It's about a bird nightlight and borders on nonsense - also has the line 'I'm your only friend I'm not your only friend but I am'

The Ballad Of Smokin' Joe Rudeboy: The song is about a cowboy who flips people off instead of using a gun. And is successful at cowboy-ing

Trans flag color picked from Smokin' Joe

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It is super low quality and I definitely do not know the principles of animation but heres a little clip I made

I think the song fits my FNV oc Geiger, who is also a cowboy who mainly uses his fists, very well

Song is “The Ballad of Smokin’ Joe Rudeboy”

By Tom Cardy

0.008 joseph rudeboy, flippin' the bird

The Ballad of Smokin' Joe Rudeboy is one of Tom Cardy's best songs for several reasons:

Despite the narrator speculating that Joe might not know that everyone he gets into a fight with has an actual gun, Joe assures the audience that he does know and doesn't give a fuck. What a badass.

His daughter shows up wearing the velvet cloak the outlaw who killed her mother wore, letting Joe know that she got to them first and had already avenged Bo. Badassery runs in the family.

Despite the silly concept of a cowboy winning duels by flipping people off, his backstory is actually pretty tragic. It's not explicitly stated what happens to his wife, but considering the narrator says Joe was "too slow" we can conclude that Bo was probably shot by the outlaw while Joe was getting help, and presumably died during childbirth. Joe never goes back for their daughter, so he must have assumed or been told that she died along with Bo.

The chant of "Fuck off" in the background of the showdown with his daughter. You'll be too busy listening to the story to even notice it at first, but it's pretty funny when you finally hear it.

Joe "shooting" the cappucino out of the barista's hand in the music video cracks me up every time lol

Can you imagine an actual music video for this? It'd be so amazing

Patch notes (1.1.2023):

For the last 5 years I have listened to "This Year" by the mountain goats at the end of every year, at around 11:55pm 12/31. In review of the last 5 years, I have decided to stop damning us all and instead listened to a cowboy ballad this year. May you win every highnoon duel you start . Sorry about the curse