When evening chores are over, at our ranch house on the plains And all I've got to do is lay around I saddle up my pony and go ridin' down the trail To watch the desert sun go down Ridin' down the canyon to watch the sun go down A picture that no artist 'ere could paint White-faced cattle grazing down the mountainside I hear a coyote whining for...Learn More

When I was a kid the snow would drift high on the barn Before daylight broke, I'd be out with a bucket on my arm And the cattle would walk through the dark and the cold With steam in their breaths and ice on their coats The snow beneath my boots would glitter and squeak Over the bones of the buffalo buried so deep Montana My father gave me...Learn More

Well me 'n' Oliver 'n' Virgil's in the feedstore killing time When my eyes fell upon this magazine I got to reading this here article about sky-diving and parachutes And it said jumping out of airplanes was the thing Being raised down on a ranch n always ready for a little adventure I knew that I could figure out a way Well Delmer Gill's got a...Learn More

There was a boy in Arkansas who wouldn't listen to his ma When she told him that he should go to school He'd sneak away in the afternoon, take a little walk and pretty soon You'd find him at the local auction barn Well he'd stand and listen carefully then pretty soon he began to see How the auctioneer could talk so rapidly He said, "Oh my it's do...Learn More

Now, the old Double Diamond lay out east of Dubois In the land of the buffalo And the auctioneer's gavel, it rapped and it rattled As I watched the old Double Diamond go Won't you listen to the wind Mother Nature's violin When I first hired on the old Double Diamond I was a dammed poor excuse for a man I never learned how to aim, my spirit was...Learn More

(yodel) Oh-de-lay-ee, ah-ee. oh-ay-ee Way out on the windswept desert where nature favors no man The buffalo found his brother at rest on the sun-baked sand He said, my brother, what ails you? Has sickness got you this way? But his brother never said, for his brother was dead Been dead since way last May (yodel) Oh-de-lay-ee, ah-ee....Learn More

Well cold high mountain wind Just like some worried friend Tellin' me I better git a movin' Clouds are rollin' way up high Through the trees come a lonesome sigh Of the mountain wind Cold high mountain wind Aspens are turnin', I think I'd better Head on down and find some warmer weather I strike a long trot to canyon's mouth Hit the valley gonna'...Learn More

Nobody knew where he came from They only knew he came in Slowly he walked to the end of the bar And he ordered up one slug of gin I could see that he wasn't a large man I could tell that he wasn't too tall I judged him to be about five-foot three And his voice was a soft Texas drawl Said he was needin' some wages Before he could ride for the...Learn More

At a hack stable or brandin' pen Any place you might find some bow legged men Ask any old hand He's bound to say he's got the answer To the bronc ballet If your pony breaks in two There are certain things a fellah' needs to do If you follow his advice right down to the letter Your buck off average is bound to get better Only problem is, you can't...Learn More

He’s been out here for a month now, following some elusive call Put half his life behind him, then one day he just up and hit the wall It might be an illusion, but he’s got to go and see If there’s not a place for him, somewhere west of Laramie Somewhere west of Laramie I hope to find the rest of me And it might be the best of me Somewhere west of...Learn More

There was a cowboy I knew in South Texas His face was burnt deep by the sun Part history, part sage and part mesquite He was there when Pancho Villa was young And he'd tell you a tale of the old days When the country was wild all around Sit out under the stars of the Milky Way And listen while the coyotes howl And they go... poo yip poo yip...Learn More

Old Red was one of the orneriest yet I'd seen at the big rodeo He'd bite you and kick you and stomp out your life Old Red had never been rode Meaner than sin, wild as the wind That blew on the Montana plains Old Red was one of the last of his breed And wasn't about to be tamed From Idaho a young cowboy came To ride in the big rodeo The young...Learn More