Cowboy Bill
Brooks Garth

Brooks Garth

Garth Brooks

Cowboy Bill

(Larry Bastian/E. Berghoff)


He told a good story and all of us kids listened

'Bout his life on the border and the way it was then

And we all believed him and when he would finish

We'd ask the old cowboy to tell 'em again


You could almost hear those prairie winds blowin'

His saddle a creakin' 'neath his old faded jeans

You could taste the dry dust from the trail he was ridin'

As he sat there and painted those west Texas scenes


CHORUS

And the grown-ups would tell us

You boys keep your distance, that old man's just tellin' you lies

But to all of us kids Cowboy Bill was a hero

Just as true as his blue Texas skies


He told of a time when he rode with the Rangers

Down on the pecos and he saved the day

Outnumbered by plenty, they werre almost too cover

With thirty banditos headed their way


He looked back just in time to see a horse stumble


The captain went down and Bill pulled up on his rains

And through a flurry of bullets he rescued the captain

And they rode for a sunset, just the story remains


CHORUS


Well I still remember the day that it happened

We waited and we waited but Bill never showed

And the follks at the feed store said they hadn't seen him

So we set out for his place down Old Grist Mill Road


And we cried when we found him lying there with his mem'ries

The old trunk wide open, things scattered about

He was clutchin' a badge that said Texas Ranger

And an old yeller letter said Texas Is Proud


And the grown-ups that told us

You boys keep your distance, that old man's just tellin' lies

Well now they're all sayin' Cowboy Bill was a hero

Just as true as his blue Texas skies


Just as true as his blue Texas skies

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Lyrics by Brooks Garth

  (There's No Place Like) Home For The Holidays   A Friend To Me   Ain't Going Down ('til The Sun Comes Up)   Alabama Clay   American Honky-Tonk Bar Association   Anonymous   Beer Run   Big Money   Burning Bridges   Cold Shoulder   Cowboy Cadillac   Cowboys And Angels   Dixie Chicken   Do What You Gotta Do   Don't Cross The River   Every Now And Then   Everytime That It Rains   Face To Face   Go Tell It On The Mountain   God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen   Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas   I Don't Have To Wonder   I Know One   I've Got A Good Thing Going   If Tomorrow Never Comes   Ireland   It's Midnight Cinderella   It's The Most Wonderful Time Of The Year   Kickin' And Screamin'   Learning To Live Again   Let It Snow   Mr Blue   Mr Right   Mr. Midnight   Much Too Young (To Feel This Damn Old)   Nobody Gets Off In This Town   O Little Town Of Bethlehem   One Night A Day   Papa Loved Mama   Red Strokes   Rodeo Or Mexico   Rollin'   Same Old Story   Shameless   She's Every Woman   She's Gonna Make It   Sleigh Ride   Something With A Ring To It   Somewhere Other Than The Night   Squeeze Me In   Tearin' It Up (And Burning It Down)   That Ol' Wind   That Summer   The Change   The Christmas Song   The Cowboy Song   The Dance   The Fever   The Gift   The Old Stuff   The Red Strokes   The River   The Storm   The Thunder Rolls   Thicker Than Blood   To Make You Feel My Love   Two Of A Kind, Workin' On A Full House   Two Pina Coladas   Unanswered Prayers   Victim Of The Game   Walking After Midnight   We Shall Be Free   When There's No One Around   When You Come Back To Me Again   Which One Of Them   White Christmas   Why Ain't I Running   Wild As The Wind   Wild Horses   Winter Wonderland   Wolves   You Move Me

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