Cowboy Song

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Cowboy Song by Thin Lizzy

About Cowboy Song

"Cowboy Song" is described by Phil Lynott biographer Mark Putterford as "a cross between Clint Eastwood and Rudolph Valentino, with a bit of George Best thrown in for good measure. Philip strode into the sunset of his own imagination and always, of course, lived to fight another day." It was also, he says, "one of Lizzy's most effortlessly seductive rockers to date". Though the song is strong lyrically, bass player and writer Lynott was never afraid to allow the axemen to dominate a track .

Cowboy Song Lyrics

I am just a cowboy lonesome on the trail
A starry night, a campfire light
The coyote call
And the howling winds wail
So I'll ride out to the old sundown

I am just a cowboy lonesome on the trail
Lord I'm just thinkin' about a certain female
The nights we spent together ridin' on the range
Lookin' back it didn't seem so strange

Roll me over and turn me around
Let me keep spinnin' till I hit the ground
Roll me over and let me go ridin' in the rodeo

I was took in Texas I did not know her name
Lord all these southern girls they 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 spinnin' till I hit the ground
Roll me over and let me go, runnin' free with the buffalo
(Here I go)

Roll me over
And I'll turn around
And I'll move my fingers
Up and down
Up and down

It's okay amigo
Just let me go
Ridin' in the rodeo

Roll me over and turn me around
Let me keep spinnin' till I hit the ground
Roll me over and let me go ridin' in the rodeo
Roll me over and set me free
The cowboy's life is the life for me

From the album: Jailbreak