I am just a cowboy
lonesome on the trail

A starry night,
a campfire light

The coyote call,
the howling winds wail

So I ride out to the old sundown
I am just a cowboy
lonesome on the trail

Lord, I'm just thinking about
a certain female

The nights we spent together
riding on the range

Looking back it seems so strange
Roll me over and turn me around

Let me keep spinning till I hit the ground

Running free with the buffalo

I was took in Texas
I did not know her name

Lord, all these southern girls 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 spinning till I hit the ground

Roll me over and let me go
Riding in the rodeo
Roll me over and set me free

The cowboy's life is the life for me