When I Was A Cowboy (Western Plains) Songtext
von Alvin Youngblood Hart

When I was a cowboy
Out on the western plains
When I was a cowboy
Out on the western plains
I made a half a million
Pullin′ on the bridle reins

Come a cow ki--yicky
Come a cow ki-yicky-yicky-yeah
Come a cow ki--yicky
Come a cow ki-yicky-yicky-yeah

Oh, the hardest battle
Was it ever on the western plains
Oh, the hardest battle
Was ever on the western plains
When me and a bunch of cowboys
Run into Jesse James


Come a cow ki-yicky
Come a cow ki-yicky-yicky-yeah
Come a cow ki--yicky
Come a cow ki-yicky-yicky-yeah

When me and a bunch of cowboys
Run into Jesse James
When me and a bunch of cowboys
Run into Jesse James
The bullets was a-fallin'
Just like a shower rain

Come a cow ki--yicky
Come a cow ki-yicky-yicky-yeah
Come a cow ki--yicky
Come a cow ki-yicky-yicky-yeah
And the boys is already then they got drunk.
And all around that man′s house
Them hosses was a-walkin'
And them .45's was-a talkin′.
And they shot out ′best regards'
To that man and here what they says:
The boys had it all in for a man on the outskirts a-town.
And they had made the hosses drunk.
They had made them .45′s drunk. ha.


De house catch de fire
And they ain't no water ′round
If yo' house catch de fire
And they ain′t no water 'round
Throw yo' jelly out de window
Let de doggone shack burn down

Come a cow ki--yicky
Come a cow ki-yicky-yicky-yeah
Come a cow ki--yicky
Come a cow ki-yicky-yicky-yeah

Come all you cowboys
Don′t you wanna go?
Come all you cowboys
Don′t you wanna go?
Come meet de Lone Ranger
On a range of Buffalo

Come a cow ki--yicky
Come a cow ki-yicky-yicky-yeah
Come a cow ki--yicky
Come a cow ki-yicky-yicky-yeah.