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Cowboy Song

This version of Cowboy Song was released by Thin Lizzy in 1976.

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I am just a cowboy lonesome on the trail
A starry night, a campfire light
The coyote call, the howling winds 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 till I hit the ground
Roll me over and let me go
Running free with the buffalo

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

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

Roll me over and set me free
The cowboy’s life is the life for me

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The lyrics to Cowboy Song are the words, verses and chorus for the song released by Thin Lizzy in 1976. Elements of the lyrics to Cowboy Song are both direct in meaning and also metaphorical with the real meanings of the song only known by Thin Lizzy and any collaborating writers working on the lyrics for Cowboy Song back when it was created.

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