i want to be a cowboy's sweetheart

i want to learn to rope and to ride

i want to ride o'er the plains and the deserts

out west of the great divide

i want hear the coyotes howlin

while the sun sinks in the west

i want to be a cowboy's sweetheart

that's the life that i love best



(yodeling)



i want to ride old paint going at a run

i want to feel the wind in my face

a thousand miles from these city lights

goin at a cowhand's pace

i want to cradle my head near the sleeping herd

while the moon shines down from above

i want to strum my guitar and yodel-a-e-hoo

oh that's the life that i love



(yodeling)



i want to be a cowboy's sweetheart

i want to learn to rope and to ride

i want to ride o'er the plains and the deserts

out west of the great divide

i want to hear the coyotes howlin

while the sun sinks in the west

i want to be a cowboy's sweetheart

that's the life that i love best



(yodeling)