Cowboy Song

Album: Jailbreak (1976)
Charted: 77
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  • I am just a cowboy, lonesome on the trail
    A starry night, a campfire light
    The coyote call and the howling wind wail
    So I ride out to the old sundown

    I am just a cowboy, lonesome on the trail
    Lord, I'm just thinking about a certain female
    The nights we spent together riding on the range
    Looking back it seems so strange

    Roll me over and turn me around
    Let me keep spinning 'til I hit the ground
    Roll me over and let me go
    Riding in the rodeo

    I was took in Texas, I did not know her name
    Lord, all these southern girls all seem the same
    Down below the border in a town in Mexico
    I got my job busting broncs in the rodeo

    Roll me over and turn me around
    Let me keep spinning 'til I hit the ground
    Roll me over and let me go
    Running free with the buffalo
    Here I go

    Roll me over and I'll turn around
    And I'll move my fingers up and down
    Up and down

    It's ok amigo
    Just let me go
    Riding in the rodeo

    Roll me over and turn me around
    Let me keep spinning 'til I hit the ground
    Roll me over and let me go
    Riding in the rodeo

    Roll me over and set me free
    A cowboys life is the life for me Writer/s: Brian Michael Downey, Philip Parris Lynott
    Publisher: Universal Music Publishing Group
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Comments: 2

  • Fat Lezzly from EssexThis is the coolest fkin rebel cowboy song. Riff is epic. Solos are epicness. Love lizzy.... Timeless genius band. One of the few you can happily say are one of the best bands ever in the world ever (like maiden and of course steel { 2 in the pink and 1 in th stink} panther), and of course others I can't be f--ked to mention.
  • Paul from Sunnyvale, CaHow am I the first to comment on this awesome song!
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