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
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
We're a fun lovin' crowd Kinda rowdy and loud Our jukebox won't play no sad songs So don't come in here And cry in your beer Cause we don't care about
Just a [E]rodeo drifter, he [A]comes and he [E]goes, Like a wild wind that blows in the [B7]night. The highways and backroads are all that he knows,
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
Life's like a road that you travel on When there's one day here and the next day gone Sometimes you bend, sometimes you stand Sometimes you turn your
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
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
Last night you told her, you could never hold her. 'Cause a cowboy's just gotta be free. Her heart was breakin', yours was achin', But you saddled up
When he was five years old his mom took him down to the round corral To watch his dad work the young horse they called Smokey man did that horse buck
Took my last fall in San Diego Bus headed north one headed south I call a farm in Colorado And I lift a dusty pay phone to my mouth She says hello
CHORUS Copenhagen it makes me feel so good. Copenhagen the way I know it should. I put a little chew in my mouth, go spittin' and a-slobberin' all
Well my car broke down it's in the ditch wish I was the son of someone rich I'd throw hundred dollar bills out on the road and I'd catch me a ride to
We made camp along Red River Watched the cattle as they bedded down Back at the wagons, right after supper We spread our bedrolls on the ground And me
He's got a split finger wrap And his rope's pulled way to tight He's got a lunatic smile 'Cause he's really drawn deep tonight CHORUS He's got a
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
Well it's Saturday night You're all dressed up in blue I've been watching you awhile Maybe you've been watching me too And so somebody ran out Left somebody
(Spoken) Well there's always been groups of people that could never see eye to eye... an' I always thought if they'd get the chance to sit down and
