Lyrics to
This Ol’ Cowboy

This version of This Ol’ Cowboy was released by The Marshall Tucker Band in 1974.

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Well I’m sittin’ down in San Anton’
Waiting on an eight o’clock train
My woman left me here last night
Things ain’t been quite the same
I gotta get back to Dallas
And tie up a few loose ends
I’m gonna work a week make a hundred dollars
Aw and hit the road again
So I don’t want you to think

That you’re the first one
To leave me out here on my own
Cause this ain’t gonna be the first time
This ol’ cowboy spent the night alone

Now honey I’ve been a fool but a bigger fool
I can’t remember when I’ve been
Just to open up my heart
And let you walk right in
Now there’s one thing in this life
Ain’t hard for me to do
That’s as soon as I kiss the lips of another woman
I’m gonna forget all about you
So I don’t want you to think

That you’re the first one
To leave me out here on my own
No this ain’t gonna be the first time
This ol’ cowboy spent the night alone

If you wrote all the woman’s names down I know
And let me pick one out
I don’t think there’d be one in the whole bunch
Aw I’d give a hoot about
So I don’t want you to think

That you’re the first one
To leave this ol’ boy out here on his own
Cause this ain’t gonna be the first time
This ol’ cowboy spent the night alone
No this ain’t gonna be the first time
This ol’ cowboy spent the night alone

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About Lyrics and This Ol’ Cowboy by The Marshall Tucker Band

The lyrics for This Ol’ Cowboy are made up of the words, verses and background chorus for the popular 1974 song by The Marshall Tucker Band. Like a lot of songs, the lyrics to This Ol’ Cowboy have both direct meanings and metaphorical context hidden within the song's words. All of the meanings are only truly known by the creators of the lyrics for This Ol’ Cowboy - The Marshall Tucker Band and any of the writers who worked with them on the song.

If you have an interest in the structure of words and phrases, you can dissect the lyrics to This Ol’ Cowboy by The Marshall Tucker Band in multiple ways. 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 This Ol’ Cowboy" means the words set to the music of This Ol’ Cowboy, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by The Marshall Tucker Band. 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 This Ol’ Cowboy and the lyrics to This Ol’ Cowboy are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of The Marshall Tucker Band who came here looking just for the lyrics to This Ol’ Cowboy, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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