Coyotes is an American Western song written by Bob McDill and closely associated with cowboy singer Don Edwards.
[1] It appears on Edwards' 1993 album Goin' Back to Texas,[2] and was featured on the soundtrack of the 2005 documentary film Grizzly Man.
[5] In a 2010 interview with Cowboys & Indians magazine, Edwards said "Bob McDill wrote the song in 1984 or '85 and couldn't pitch it to anyone.
[4] Among the things that the protagonist says "are gone" are nineteenth-century people, animals, and concepts that contemporary listeners may not be familiar with: Pancho Villa, longhorns, drovers, Comanches, outlaws, Geronimo, Sam Bass, the lion, the red wolf, Quantrill (sounds like Quantro in the song, (one version he says Quanah Parker, who was a Comanche.
The song was one of the records selected by British politician and adventurer, Rory Stewart, as part of his Desert Island Discs.