All I Ever Wanted To Be (Was A Cowboy) Lyrics

All I ever wanted to be was a cowboy

Ride my pony on the range

Sleeping by campfires my head resting on my saddle

Finding shelter from the rain

I've seen 20 miles of hard road made out of gravel,

Nights when those old coyotes wouldn't let me sleep,

Rattlesnakes in the kitchen, lions stampeding cattle,

And days on end, when there wasn't much to eat

All I ever wanted to be was a cowboy

Ridin' in some rodeo

Losing your shirt, or winning a buckle

Which one it would be you'd never know

Once upon a time I had to sell my saddle

Just to pay a hotel bill

We made California, hungry broke and rattled

But I'd do it all again, just for the thrill

All I ever wanted to be was a cowboy

Ride my pony on the range

Sleeping by campfires my head resting on my saddle

Seeking shelter from the rain

1966 & '68 I was a champion,

For a couple of years I was the steer-wrestling king,

It was a hell of a lot better than bouncing drunks out of taverns,

And all those skinned-up knuckles, a job like that can bring

All I Ever Wanted To Be Was A Cowboy

Ride my pony on the range

My Irish heart dreaming of the nights with my Miss Donna

The only girl that I let hold the reigns

They'll stick you in a home, when you're worn out and feeble

I ain't going out that way

Me and my ranchero friends will hang on to our ponies

When that old sun starts setting on us, we'll just ride away

Cause all we ever wanted to be was a cowboy

Live and die out on the range

So bury my body neath some old weeping willow

Maybe I'll find shelter from the rain

All I ever wanted to be was a cowboy