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...Cos' a cowboy's life ain't easy and the cowboy's life is hard. You can take him from the saddle, but he'll be forever scarred...
— Sideways Hank O'Mally singing "The Ballad of Chapped-Lips Calhoun"

"Sideways" Hank O'Mally is a minor character in Grand Theft Auto.

He is voiced by Drew Larg.

History[]

Background[]

O'Mally is a late American singer who composed the song "The Ballad Of Chapped Lips Calhoun" with the Alabama Bottle Boys, which is featured in The Fergus Buckner Show FM. After the song ends, DJ Fergus Buckner announces he likes the song so much, he's going to play it again, and the cycle repeats.

The song briefly plays in Grand Theft Auto 2 in King 130.7 during Marshall Nash's speech of the escaped convicts and the ident about the American Civil War Veterans.

O'Mally is voiced by Drew Larg.

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Radio hostsEddie Symons | Fergus Buckner
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