Lyrics to
Cowboy

Released by Three Dog Night in 1970
From the Album: It Ain't Easy |

This version of Cowboy was released by Three Dog Night in 1970.

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Cold gray buildings where a hill should be.
Steel and concrete closing in on me.
City faces haunt the places i roam alone.

Cowboy, cowboy, can’t run, can’t hide, too late.
To fight now, to die to try.

Winds that once blew free now scatter dust to the sky
Cowboy, cowboy, can’t run, can’t hide, too late.
To fight now, to die to try.


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Three Dog Night has released many songs over the years besides Cowboy. Three Dog Night released songs from 1968 to 1976 spanning across albums like Three Dog Night, Suitable For Framing, It Ain't Easy, Naturally, Harmony, Seven Separate Fools, Cyan, Hard Labor, Coming Down Your Way, and American Pastime. Decade Lyrics has over lyrics & songs by Three Dog Night.

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About Lyrics and Cowboy by Three Dog Night

The lyrics to Cowboy are just the words, phrases, verses and chorus that Three Dog Night used when the song was created in 1970. The lyrics to Cowboy have both easy-to-spot meanings and hidden metaphors that have been discussed by the music press and fans, but only Three Dog Night and any collaborators know all of the inspirations for the song.

If you like etymology or breaking apart phrases and words, it is easy to understand the lyrics to Cowboy by Three Dog Night. 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 Cowboy" means the words set to the music of Cowboy, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Three Dog Night. 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 Cowboy and the lyrics to Cowboy are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Three Dog Night who came here looking just for the lyrics to Cowboy, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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