ONLY COWBOY SONG

chorus/ Free range and waterholes is all horses need.

Don't matter which way they go.

And although there's no fencin' He cannot be freed

from a woman that he used to know.

It's the full naked moon and a wind with a bite,

he's a cowboy thinkin' on his sin.

'Though his eyes watch his colt in the bright moonlight,

his heart wonders how'd it begin?

She was pretty and small and with sparkling eyes

and he'd tell her he loved her so.

But his weathered face couldn't hide all of his lies

an' she knew sometime soon he would go.

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Well, she cried when he told her it was time to ride.

When she knew what she'd already known.

And the tears of a girl like that blister the hide

of a heart that has never been shown.

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The night takes its toll as the chill bites his bone,

bundled up and tryin' to sleep.

His mind says cowboys always end up alone,

And his heart longs for love he can't keep.

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copyright 1984 Barbara Eustis-Cross

As far as I know, this song was written by Barbara and sung around campfires with her husband, Dan, and various BLM cowboys from the Ridgecrest Corrals. I understand that during these song fests, inebriants were often consumed, in particular, Barb's homemade Kaluha.