I´ve been riding all night just to get here

Don´t you be throwing us out so soon

Across the whole damn South with cotton-mouth

Now we got some drinking to do

We´ve been stuck on the range for 45 days

And that´s a long long time

We ain´t leaving this place ´til there´s a smile on our face

And the whole room is a friend of mine.



So won´t you line ´em all up and slide ´em all down

And let´s hear the jukebox roll

We´ve been living on bacon and beans

Playing the jacks and the queens

But we still got some money to blow

And the times ain´t wild enough

We dig our spurs in the make them jump

We´re riding shotgun with the devil

We´re the buckaroos.



My name is Gideon Tanner

I´ve been a man of good manners

I won´t dance ´til the ladies ask me

I simply tip my hat, I smile and sit back

And then I wait for that friendly stampede

I started dancing so tight that this girl turned white

I thought she must be passing away

I said:  now don´t let me down,

´cos when I hit this town

I´ve got to live my whole life in a day.



So won´t you ...