that he's a cowboy and he's done
Said I've won them big buckles
Now I'm ready to spend my last years
that ain't been plowed for years
We'll plant wheat and white oaks,
Then I'll buy us some baldies
And I'll break out some bad ones
just to help pay the bills
Cause the winter's getting long,
times with no light a day
And the long nights get lonely
As she dreams of a cowboy
and he's a -dancin' the gate
Well, he made it just fine
till the harvest was done
His feet started itchin', he wanted to run
And the first that he took
just put wings on his feet
And she cried when he showed her
She knew by the first light of day
But he promised he'd quit
when the season was through
As the winters get long up Alberta way
Clouds get so dark at times
And the long nights get lonely
As she dreams of a cowboy
Place tied Cheyenne in a first Sioux fall
He was sendin' home money,
But then life for a cowboy
Cause he drawed him a bad one
And the first jump he stumbled,
As his neck snapped like straw,
have taken the flatlands again
And there's a few strands of wire
where the fences have been
And the Bawleys are starving
in the hills where they graze
While she's rockin' the first
