An old cowpoke went ridin' out one cold and windy day
Upon a ridge he rested as he went along his way
When all at once a might heard of red-eyed cows he saw
Went plowin' through the ragged skies and up a cloudy draw

Their bands were still on fire hooves were made of steel
T

She opened up the letter from Nashville Tennessee
He said hon they like my music the songs I wrote for you and me
The boys and me just cut a record and it could hit the charts before too long
So it's gonna be a while till I can come back home
Yes I'm gonna be a country star and e

Well you mama finds it hard to understand,
Why her lovin' son wants to be a rodeo man.
And your daddy had a whole lotta great big plans for you,
You hate to disappoint him but you gotta other things to do.
Now, your best girl thinks it's time you settle down.
You finally grad

Well you mama finds it hard to understand,
Why her lovin' son wants to be a rodeo man.
And your daddy had a whole lotta great big plans for you,
You hate to disappoint him but you gotta other things to do.
Now, your best girl thinks it's time you settle down.
You finally grad

Well a bronc bucked me off up in Cheyenne Wyoming I broke me a couple of bones
My wife up an left me it must be an omen my destiny's being alone
I've been thinkin' of mama out a workin' the yard so I gave her a call on the phone
But I told her I've just been workin' so hard I just ai

I pack my clothes in a cardboard box and mama packed my lunch
I walk down to the highway and caught a Trails Ways bus
I woke up in the city stepped down on the curb
And the strangest lookin' people and sounds I've never heard
It ain't no place for a country boy it ain't no place

This road that I've chosen it's a road that few have traveled
But there's good times with the hard times along the way
And this life that I'm livin' God knows that I love it
And I like to share it with you if I may
So I write my songs of life as I know it
And I sing them for

Before we close out the album I'd like to thank these fine players
If you listen to any of the songs of the superstars of the recording business
The chance is at least on of these pickers was in on the session
The man on the drums Bill Harriss was responsible for getting all of them

Just a broken down cowboy all down on his luck
Been through the best of his friends
On a long lonesome highway in an old pick-up truck
Cross Texas like a hot dusty wind

He was All Around Cowboy back in forty-nine
From the top it's been a long way down
Since the whiskey

Folks used to think that I could ride any bronc or bull alive
Maybe in my younger days I could
But now I'm slowin' down a bit friends tell me that I should quit
And if I didn't love it so I would
I recall when folks thought I was great and all the riders used to hate
To see m

Blue eyes and freckles 'neath a white cowboy hat His two bestest friends are his dog and his cat He's one of the good guys, it's plain to see A shore enough cowboy though he's only three There's a cu

Faded old blue wranglers dusty cowboy hat pair of scuffed up boots upon your feet
Can of pork n beans that you opened with your knife
It aint much but its all you've got to eat
You think of what your daddy said if your money should run low
Just call I'll send your busfare to come

On a highway thru the desert beneath an over pass
Sat two hikers just watchin' cars go by
Now one was wearin' sandles with straggly matted hair
Rose colored glasses for his eyes

Now the other was a cowboy he'd been down on his luck
Lost his money at the Tuson rodeo
And

Well I wake up in the mornin', I brew my coffee hot and strong.
I get out my ole guitar, and try to write a song.
An them larks are singin, oh lord, just outside.
And I'm stuck here in this kitchen tryin' to write.
And I'm writin' these cowboy songs. Yodellehe, Cowboy songs...

Ramblin fever took him, when he was 21
tonight's rodeo is over, but the fight had just begun
he was pounded into the ground, while chasin after his dream
he ain't one to laying down and livin in misery

you gotta cowboy up, dust yourself off
get back in the saddle give it on

I'm sittin' in a city filled with people cars and smoke
The walls are closin' in on me my heart's about to choke
The world becomes a foggy dream and I no longer see
The dirty concrete canyons where I have come to be
Cause a cowboy rides the mountains and the draws inside my mind<

Braided rope saddle soap rosin for his riggin'
A young man dreams of growing up to ride
Buckin' broncs Brahma bulls is just some wishful thinkin'
Cause that cowboy well he's still too young to ride
Leather chaps a big white hat silver spurs that glisten
Growin' up takes such

Rollin' down a long highway
Out to New Mexico
Driftin' down to Santa Fe
To ride a bull in a rodeo
He's hooked on a feelin'
Addicted to a natural high
Don't know why it's appealin'
All he knows is he's got to ride

He's addicted to danger
Ruled by passion and

Just look at you, girl
Standin' here beside me
Starlight on your hair
Lookin' like a dream I dreamed somewhere
And look at me, girl
You got me actin' just like a lover
In an old time picture show
And how I got the part -- I just don't know
But it's written all acr

Well it's 40 below and I don't give a fuck
Got a heater in my truck and I'm off to the rodeo
And it's alamande left and alamande right
Come on ya fuckin' dummy get your right step right
Get off the stage ya god damn goof ya know

Piss me off ya fuckin' jerk get on my nerves<