Well,
Daddy and his buddies
are down at Gower Gulch
Smokin' and spittin',
cussin' and hittin' and passin' round the jug
Hangin' out by the payphone,
waitin' on a call from the studio
For a big part in a cowboy movie
Well, Jackie wants to be
a drugstore cowboy
Just like his daddy,
he's his daddy's little boy
Well, Jackie wants to be
a drugstore cowboy
He longs to be his daddy's pride and joy
Well, Jackie learned to duck and
pop the trumpet punches
Daddy loved the special and divine
screaming shout -out over lights
He was alive on Hollywood
Boulevard
Drowning in Spurs and the
Audrey Scar
He's the man on the set of a cowboy movie
Well, Jackie wants to be
a drugstore cowboy
Just like his daddy,
he's his daddy's little boy
Yeah, Jackie wants to be
a drugstore cowboy
He longs to be his daddy's pride and joy
Well, wash your face, sober up,
meet me at the studio at five
o 'clock
Dress sharp and wade in the cattle stall,
I've got to part my suit too
Jackie's at the movie,
looking for his daddy
Daddy's in the gutter crying
for his mother,
doesn't even know he's on the
silver screen
Jackie learned to drive a 34
-stick shipboard
Sittin' on the table at the Billiard Hall
Helpin' drunken daddy keep score
Skin an d mules, lookin' grim
He wants to grow up just like him
An extra cowboy in the movies
Well, Jackie wants to be
a drugstore cowboy
Just like his daddy's
in daddy's little boy
Jackie wants to be a drugstore cowboy
He longs to be daddy's
pride and joy
Jackie wants to be a drugstore cowboy
Jackie wants to be
a drugstore cowboy
Jackie wants to be a drugstore cowboy
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