From the recording WEST OF LONELY
Lyrics
COWBOYS
I love country music it saved me from drink
You just write down what comes first you don't need to think
Cos it's divorce and big boots and big trucks and things
Some fool on a banjo and gold wedding rings
And more boots and more trucks and blokes with dumb hats
Who make out they're cowboys and don't live in flats
In brunswick or richmond and ride on the plains
On faithful old ponies and they never catch trains
Or wait in the laundromat until it's their turn
To use the spin dryer and don't need to learn
A new foreign language just to ride on the bus
But hell they're real cowboys not town folks like us
I love country music it's light on the brain
You just sing the one verse and then sing it again
And hope they don't notice then stick in some trucks
And something 'bout cowboys who're down on their luck
And tell all the people how great you'all are
Then polish the cow horns in front of your car
And live up the country the great big outdoors
And get up before sunrise and do all the chores
Then sit in the kitchen with crap on your boots
But hell they're real cowboys and they don't wear suits
I love country music it's so easy to play
There's only three chords and who cares anyway
If you get them all backwards just stick in some trucks
Cause no one will notice and they don't give a damn
If you forget all the lyrics they don't know that word
So you sing about cowboys who ride around the herd
And miss all their woman out there on the trail
And get into bar fights and end up in jail
And learn the harmonica and wear more big hats
But hell they're real cowboys, folks love 'em like that!
