My Heroes Have Always Been Cowboys

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Words/music--Sharon Vaughn, 1976
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I grew up a-dreaming of being a cowboy

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And loving the cowboy ways.

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Pursuing the life of my high-ridin' heroes,

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I burned up my childhood days.

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I learned all the rules of a modern-day drifter

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Don't you hold on to nothin' too long.

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Just take what you need from the ladies

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Then leave them with the words of a sad country song.

Refrain

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My heroes have always been cowboys

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And they still are it seems,

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Sadly in search of and one step in back of

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Themselves and their slow-movin' dreams.

Cowboys are special with their own brand of mis'ry
From bein' along too long.
You could die from the cold in the arms of a nightmare
Knowing well that your best days are gone.
Pickin' up hookers instead of my pen
I let the words of my youth fade away, just
Old worn out saddles and old worn out mem'ries
With no one and no place to stay.-->Refrain

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