Cowboy Pride
By Ian Tyson ASCAP
1986 Slick Fork Music --
CAPAC
Friend I'm writing you this letter
I think it's darn sure overdue
You're thinking mind your own
damn business
I won't blame you if you do
You know our range is getting
smaller
I hear you're all broke up inside
But ain't the broncs that's going
to kill ya
It's your own fool cowboy pride
Hear you'd left the Chimeneas
You know that makes me kind
of sad
She's a great ol' Spanish
landgrant
You're about the best she ever
had
But a cowboss and corporations
Seem to naturally collide
And you came of the loser
With your damned ol' cowboy
pride
Chorus:
Cowboy pride will always
Get a man through
But sometimes it makes a fool of
you
Good women are hard to find
Talkin' 'bout the faithful kind
Now you're runnin' with that
waitress
And she's underage and wild
Well your wife's the best there is
son
Would you leave her for that
child
She stuck with you through the
hard times
Think of all those nights she's
cried
Will she become another victim
Of your damned ol' cowboy
pride
Well I guess I've said my piece
friend
Just something I had to do
I made the same mistakes with
Julie
Before she fell in love with you
Head on home it ain't too late
son
Time to put that past aside
So you don't end up like me now
Riding on ol' cowboy pride
Repeat Chorus
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