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 Wen...

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...

I used to want to be a cowboy Spent my childhood dreamin' that Wearing spurs and boots and six guns And a big ten-gallon hat Chasin' outlaws, savin' ladies Bus...

She was holding her breath and he attempted a prayer And he was cussing the dust rising up in the air 'Cos the old cattle trail, well, it weren't anywhere For a...

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 disa...

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 disa...

Lying cheating hurting, That's all you seem to do Messing around with every guy in town, Putting me down for thinking of someone new Always the same playing you...

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 think...

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 ...

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 t...

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 a...

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...

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 du...

Since I was a baby, maybe two or three Ain't nothin' ever really bothered me Some people rattle at the smallest things I thought that I could handle anything bu...

Amarillo by morning Up from San Antone Everything that I've got Is just what I've got on When the sun is high In that Texas sky I'll be bucking it to county fai...

Well I grew up in the shadow of the Rockies in the grand old West yes sir I did And dammed if we didn't have us a bunch of fun back when we was kids Yea there w...

I was snappin' out broncs at the Old Flyin' U At forty a month a plum good buckaroo Well, the boss comes around and he says, hey my lad Well, you look pretty go...

He was born and raised in Oklahoma his blood lines were white and Cherokee His daddy owned a ranch outside of Clairmore Where he learned to ride before the age ...

I went to see the preacher To teach me how to pray He looked at me and smiled Then that preacher turned away Said, "If you want to tell him something You ain't...

When I was just a very young lad I walked up and I told my dad A bareback rider's what I wanna be I want the whole world to know about me In the rodeo arena I'l...

Boots and a buckle jukebox and a bottle Old rodeo cowboy it's part of the draw He dreams of tomorrow winnin' the next show Till he looks in the mirror that hang...

It's good to hear your voice after all this time I've been told I'm hard to find It's raining here but I'm keeping dry And for me that's doing good To tell the...

You need a man to get lost it with a heart big enough to roam No more fences for you to look through with your heart caught in a strangle hold I've got a love f...

There's a blizzard comin' on how I'm wishin' I was home For my pony's lame and he can't hardly stand Listen to that Norther sigh if we don't get home we'll die ...

Well, there's a special place in my memory, Where I keep the pictures of a time an' place I left far behind An' I know the years have probably colored the way i...

Blue eyes and frcles 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 shore enough cowboy t...

Well there's a special place in my memory Where I keep the pictures of a time and place I left far behind And I know the years have probably colored the way it ...

I was born in Mississippi on the Gulf of Mexico And I could hear the Gators a roar at night out on the old bayou I remember Spanish Moss a hangin' from the cypr...

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 y...

Now I've got a pony, the fastest thing around And of all the girls I've known she's the truest one I've found Well she'll cut em and she'll head em just the way...

I was sittin' the a barroom one rainy afternoon Tellin' stories about rodeo and listening to a tune The rodeo starts tomorrow in this one horse town So Bill too...

Wild as a coastal barronca swift as the wind blowing free With two eyes like fire brands that glow in the night Somewhere up there he's waiting for me And he kn...

Well the well went dry and the cow did too And daddy didn't know what to do The banker came by the house one day He said he's gonna take the farm away Then mama...

Well, the well went dry and the cow did too Daddy didn't know what to do The banker came by the house one day He said he's gonna take the farm away Then mama c...

Well its good to see you folks tonight I hope you got your hats on tight And I hope your ready to hear some cowboy songs You can listen up or party down have a ...

I look out to the east of the Colorado sky The canyons are throwin' dust in the storms eye And the storms gettin' angry I know that its so It's fixin' to blow a...

The first time I saw him was over in Tucson When he asked what the bronc ridin' paid Well, me and the boys we all had us a laugh When we saw that his hair was i...

Copenhagen It makes me feel so good Copenhagen The way I know it should I put a lil' chew in my mouth Go spittin' and a slobberin' all around the house That Cop...

[If you haven"?t started this nasty habit, don"?t start But if you're hopelessly addicted, might as well sing about it!] Copenhagen: Makes me feel so good Cop...

Well she rolls her own cigarettes with the work of just on hand She acts mean and she cusses I know she wish she were a man She got her teeth knocked out by a b...

Well I've never been afraid of much and never thought I need a crutch To help me thru the trials of this life But there's one thing I cant do with out and Copen...

Been workin' like a dawg slavin' on the fence line stretchin' those wires tight Diggin' and tappin' and sweatin' in the sunshine but I get off tonight I got a d...

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...

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 gla...

He's rugged rough and ready his lady's soft and pretty There must be ten years difference in their ages I suppose But you don't see any traces or sadness in the...

He walked out in the arena all dressed up to the brim Said he just came down from a place called Highland Rim Well he said he came to ride the horse the one the...

He was a runaway rodeo was his dream He was ridin' bulls and a bittin' the dust by the time he was seventeen Sixteen cowboys in an eight dollar room livin' on b...

Just barely eighteen when the Great War was through Ridin' and fighin' was all that I knew Hard life and death was all that I seen Ridin' hell bend for leather ...

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 ...

I was a new kid on the circuit Gold buckles in my eyes But the horse I drew was plenty rank Much to my suprise I did a double back flip And landed on my head Th...

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 disapp...

Well your 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 disap...

The raindrops fall on my camper the lightening crashes and lights the sky I look at the window sprayed with raindrops I see her face and I see her smile Never b...

I know I hurt you but I never meant to It's you that I'm fondest of I know you need me but I must be free Cowboys ain't easy to love Somethings that I do, I kn...

The moon is shinnin' down through the pines And it spreads its light across the mountain side And I wonder what you're doin' tonight Yes I wonder what you're do...

I parked my old pickup behind the holdin' fence and rosined up my riggin Cause my old daddy said if I ride hard and take care of my gear I'd make it big But loo...

Under the skies of old Big D he works a nine-to-five Bending steel and driving nails by phone in a suit and tie He fights traffic in his Mercedes to put on his ...

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...

Desperado, why don't you come to your senses? You been out ridin' fences for so long now Oh, you're a hard one But I know that you got your reasons These things...

Well Lord I love this ranchin' with it's ropin' and brandin' But I don't like that farmin' at all It's goodby for the summer this haying's sure a bummer And I'l...

I've been gone for so long, Feels so good just to get back home, Back to my friends and other faces that I love to see Like a rainbow that is in the sky, The ce...

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 cow...

This old highway, she's hotter than nine kinds of hell And the rides, they're as scarce as the rain When you're down to your last shuck with nothin' to sell And...

Well now cowboys love the ladies they like beans and sour dough Good horses and hot black coffee and camp fires burnin' low You know we love that cowboy music b...

My father had so much to tell me things he said I had to know Don't make my mistakes there are rules you can't break But I had to find out on my own Now when I ...

Feel like I'm gettin' into something good Don't want to stop, so I'm knocking on wood I think my streak of bad luck is over I'm rolling in a field of five leaf ...

She's sweeter than the grapes growin' out in California Softer than the fuzz on the sweetest Georgia peach Warms you goin' down like a twenty-two year old brand...

For your love I'd rope the moon and put it in a blender mix up a concauption that might make you surrender I'd bide the brand off a buckin branded bull rob me a...

Just about two hundred years ago they signed that declaration Tellin' everybody in the whole wide world they're gonna start a brand new nation From that day on ...

You've finally arrived at the goals that you set You thought that was it boy but you can't quit yet There's a lonesome old road and it stats at the top You got ...

When the freedom you've know has left you a broken man When everything you've ever owned slipped thru your hands Well it don't really matter at all and you don'...

While I was walkin' one mornin' for pleasure I spied a young cowboy just ridin' along His hat was throwed back and his spurs were a jinglin' And as he approache...

Seven years old on a gold palomino I sat up tall with my face to the wind I'd seen the rodeo cowboys in Reno so I dug in my boot heels and pulled on the reins A...

She's not a kid anymore she can hide her age in these dim lights Waitin' tables in this bar ain't what she's lookin' for The short years fly by but oh the long ...

While I was walkin' one mornin' for pleasure I spied a young cowboy just ridin' along His hat was throwed back and his spurs were a jinglin' And as he approache...

He stood out in the Cheyenne area dust by the latch on chute number four The young cowboys were laughin' at him and at the out of date clothes that he wore Thou...

Campfire coffee from a tin cup in my hand Sure warms the fingers when it's cold Playing an ol' guitar a friend I understand It sure smooths the wrinkes in my so...

Campfire coffee from a tin cup in my hand Sure warms the fingers when it's cold Playing an ol' guitar a friend I understand It sure smooths the wrinkes in my so...

I'm a goin and a blowin' and a heading down the road tryin' to make a livin rodeoin' I've been a driving all night neath the pail moonlight Waiting for the sun ...

Have you ever been down to a country dance And listend to the music of a hillbilly band And danced with your darlin' all through the night And don't go home til...

Well it's a source of speculation Mornin' noon and night 'Bout who is and who ain't Which way's wrong or right Well I'd describe the feelin' but shoot I don't h...

I rodeoed on the circuit for nearly fifteen years To reach the top it took a lot of blood sweat and tears I finally won the title I finally gained the fame But ...

The ole man stand by the lone chute, he sold his calves t'day He spits in the dust between his boots, as the semi pulls away The slick blue check in his grimy h...

Well a few years back me and ol' John worked the Calgary rodeo We were hangin' around town with nothing to do, nowhere else to go Cowboys are known for their fu...

There's a place out west where the Powder River runs off the Big Horn Mountains And winds it's way out across the plains It's a land of red walls blue sky and c...

While driving down the last four miles of gravel road to home All the old familiar landmarks seem like long lost friends As he pulls in to the ranch he see's hi...

He was just a hometown cowboy his belly kind of fat Acme boots up on his feet and a big U-roll-it hat He entered in the bull riding he did it on a dare To pleas...

There used to be a time candlelight and wine was all that a woman would need Man you were a winner if you took her out to dinner or a movie she wanted to see Bu...

Rollin' down a long highway Out through 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...

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...

Rollin down a long highway Out through 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 kn...

I was born in a hurry but there wasn't any place Nowhere fast seemed better than nowhere slow I never really got the hang of hanging around When you get down to...

This country's seen some hard times, lord knows she's deep in debt She's comin' through another depression and for some it ain't over yet We've all been divided...

Well a man can't spend his life in reflection, Just thinkin' about the way things used to be So I'm gonna take myself a new direction, And make myself some bran...

Well a man can't spend his life in reflection, Just thinkin' about the way things used to be So I'm gonna take myself a new direction, And make myself some bran...

This country's seen some hard times, lord knows she's deep in debt She's comin' through another depression and for some it ain't over yet We've all been divided...

Meet a rodeo cowboy in Billings killing time trading stories and beer And asked him how he made a living riding broncs and bull doggin' steers Well he smiled as...

Cowboys ain't never got no money their wild and livin' in a different world They only care about their horse and saddle but a cowboy dosn't keep a steady girl T...

I've got a story to tell, would you mind listening I can always count on you we're such good friends And I need to talk about my situation And you're the only o...

We'll I've been up and I've been down I've been over and I've been around I've been in and I've been out I've had some thinks to shout about But I know I won't ...