"Ol Turkey Buzzard" from Carl Foreman's film "McKenna's Gold" (1969, Classis Movie)The opening song, "Old Turkey Buzzard", is a recurring background theme. It was sung by Jose Feliciano and was composed by Quincy Jones with lyrics by Freddie Douglas."There's an old story. The way the Apaches tell it... ...a man was riding in the desert and came across a vulture... ...the kind they call turkey buzzards in Arizona, sittin' on a rock. "Hey", the man says, "how come you old turkey buzzard's sittin' here? "I saw you flying over Hadleyberg, and I didn't want to meet up with you... "...so I turned around and come this way". Old turkey buzzard says: "That's funny, I was only passing through that town. "I was really coming over here to wait for you".(Jose Feliciano sings)Ol Turkey Buzzard, Ol Turkey BuzzardFlyin, Flyin high,He's just waitingBuzzard just a-waitingWaiting for somethign down below to dieOld Buzzard knows that he can waitCause every mother's son has got a date,A date with Fate.. With fateHe sees men come, he sees men go,Crawling like ants on the rocks belowThe men who steal, the men who dreamAnd die for gold onthe rocks belowGold, Gold, Gold, they just gotta have that goldGold, Gold, Gold, they'll do anything for gold(Speech)A thousand years ago, in the southwest, there was an Apache legend. It told about a hidden canyon guarded by the Apache gods and rich with gold. As long as the Apaches kept the canyon a secret and never touched the gold, they would be strong...powerful. That was the legend.When the spanish conquistadores came, they searched for the canyon, they called it canyon del oro, meaning canyon of gold, but they never found itThree hundred years later, the Americans came. They heard about the legend but called it, "The Lost Adams". That was because a man named Adams saw it once or so he said. But whether he did or not, he never saw anything again because the Apache's burned out his eyes.Everybody knew about the legend and a lot of people believed it: Canyon del oro; The Lost Adams. Then for a while there back in 1874, they called it McKenna's Gold.(Jose Feliciano sings)Ol Turkey Buzzard, Ol Turkey BuzzardFlyin, Flyin high,He's just waitingBuzzard just a-waitingWaiting for somethign down below to dieOld Buzzard knows that he can waitCause every mother's son has got a date,A date with Fate.. With fateHe sees men come, he sees men go,Crawling like ants on the rocks belowA whiff of gold and off they goto die like rats on the rocks belowGold, Gold, Gold, they'll do anything for goldGold, Gold, Gold, gotta have McKenna's gold