Lyrics to
Cow Town

This version of Cow Town was released by Carly Simon in 1976.

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Donald Swan, he was a millionaire
From a Texas oil family
But he still worked hard and believed in God
He was a man of integrity
He went to France on business
Met a woman there named Simone
She saw love in the eyes of the American guy
And she didn’t like to be alone

Now it’s a cow town
It’s a cow town
For Simone Swann
Living on the Buffalo Bayou

She packed up all her perfume
For the gusty pioneer
On a carefree note he said, “Forget your coat
There’s a chill about every ten years”
So they flew hand in hand to Houston
Home of Exxon, Gulf and Shell
He said we have an income bigger than France
We all think that’s swell

He loved her French accent
And her knowledge of the arts
And she, for one, had always fancied
Having a millionaire sweetheart
So they got married up in Dripping Springs
Flew her Mama in from Cannes
She said: “What kind of romance could make
My baby leave France
Donald must be some kind of Don Juan”

Now she thinks about France and the nightlife there
And it’s cafes and bistros
Donald, a hard working, simple man
Likes to see the livestock shows
And when he’s not off on business
He’s off checkin’ out cows and pigs
And she gets weary on a twelve mile prairie
Starin’ at the drilling rigs

Now it’s a cow town
It’s a cow town
For Simone Swann
Living on the Buffalo Bayou

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About Lyrics and Cow Town by Carly Simon

When you decide to study the lyrics to Cow Town, you're looking at the words, verses and background chorus from the 1976 song by Carly Simon. Some of the lyrics to Cow Town have clear meanings and some contain metaphorical references. Like most songs, only Carly Simon and their collaborators know the full story behind any of the their songs.

You can understand the lyrics to Cow Town if you take apart the structure of the words. The word "lyric" itself derives from the Latin word lyricus, with the actual English word lyrics applied to the definition "words set to music" listed in Stainer and Barrett's 1876 Dictionary of Musical Terms. Continuing the chain, the Latin word lyricus derives from the Greek word λυρικός or lyrikós. This somewhat means "poetry accompanied by the lyre" or "words set to music." You can easily see that by looking at the background of the word lyric, that the "lyrics to Cow Town" means the words set to the music of Cow Town, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Carly Simon. The singular form "lyric" is still used to mean the complete words to a song. However, the singular form lyric is also commonly used to refer to a specific line (or phrase) within a song's lyrics. Hence, by this analysis of word structure, you could say that the lyric to Cow Town and the lyrics to Cow Town are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Carly Simon who came here looking just for the lyrics to Cow Town, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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