I played Texas, beer joints and rodeos
Big D arenas, truck stops, casinos
Sang in every dive and joint in Oklahoma

Did hard time in a few in Arizona
Been in every hole-in-the wall from Memphis to Maine


Out here rocking, rolling
Mixing up the fast with the slow ones
Living, breathing

Songs about loving and leaving
Mama don't get it, preacher don't understand
Why I'm a singer in a cowboy band


I got a guitar banged up as I am
Hit every bar from Buffalo to Cheyenne

I got an outlaw 5-piece combo
I got a tattoo says 'Vaquero'
I dance with the devil, live on one-night stands


But I'm rocking, rolling
Mixing up the fast with the slow ones

Living, breathing
Songs about loving and leaving
Mama don't get it, preacher don't understand

Why I'm a singer in a cowboy band

Sometimes I stop, I go to reminiscing

What it is that I'm out here missing?
How a blue-eyed boy in church on Sunday
Be raised so right then go the other way

I'll be here 'til the good Lord calls me home

Oh, I'll be rocking, rolling

Mixing up the fast with the slow ones
Living, breathing
Songs about loving and leaving

Mama don't get it, preacher don't understand
Why I'm a singer in a cowboy band