Cocaine Cowboy Lyrics

Gather round

While I tell you the story

Of John Walker Butler Hart

A man, so down on his luck

He had nowhere to go

But Up

I get it from the Gauchos

Bring it up through El Paso

Sweet Southern snow

Smell just like gaso-

Line all in my tank

Won't help me forget the past though

And I've been doin' lines

That's as thick as lassos

She been on my mind

Ever since last year

My memory's hazy

But the pain still clear

My woman up and left me

And why it ain't clear

I been more sideways

Than the man in the mirror

Went back to Bama

Took the midnight train

Down to Gulf Shores

Lay my head in the sand

The only thing keepin' me

From goin' insane

Is long hard drags

Of pure cocaine

Now I'm a Cocaine Cowboy

I'm a Cocaine Cowboy

My life is headed South,boy

Like a Cocaine Cowboy

I'm a Cocaine Cowboy

Just a Cocaine Cowboy

I'm really down and out, boy

Like a Cocaine Cowboy

Spent the whole summer sellin'

White girl to white boys

Did enough drugs

Just to drown out the white noise

Barely broke even

Just enough to get by, boys

Used my own supply

Just enough to get high boys

Didn't really matter

Long as Papi got paid

I flipped more chicken

Than a Chick-Fil-A

I never cut nothin'

Call me Honest Abe

And I didn't find trouble

When I stayed in my lane

But I was swervin'

Down the road

Tryin' to loosen my load

When I saw them lights flashin'

And I had to pull over

Guess I got off easy

By the skin of my nose

Johnny got me for the Whiskey

But not for the Coke

Now I'm a Cocaine Cowboy

I'm a Cocaine Cowboy

My life is headed South,boy

Like a Cocaine Cowboy

I'm a Cocaine Cowboy

Just a Cocaine Cowboy

I'm really down and out, boy

Like a Cocaine Cowboy