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The Cowboy Who Started The Fight

Johnny Cash

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The Cowboy Who Started The Fight

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The legs on the lady a walkin'was tanned to a dark berry brownHer body was made like a song to be playedto the tune of a million a poundSo was a wonder of a woman I reckonand she sure screwed her head on rightThe toast of the world was the long legged girland the cowboy who started the fightHe'd just pulled into town in an old green 1953 Chevrolet pickup truckWith whiskey bumps all over it and the right front fender falling offHe coasted on into a no parking zoneGot out and took the keys and chunked 'em down a gutterTurned around and just walked offHe allowed how his time had been wastedon drinking and running aroundHe spent half his life searchin' barrooms at nightFor the sweetheart that he never foundIt was plain from the moment their eyes metthey'd wind up in each others armsThe lady's young life was laid open that nightAnd the cowboy drank deep of her charmsSinging hey-hi-de-he from the depths of the seato the mountains so hollering highI've found the best one under God's given sunyeah the cowboy got lucky tonightWhile the angel beside him lay sleepinghe silently thanked God aboveFor being a kind hearted fatherand blessing his love with her loveFor one night of love with that womanwas more than he knew he deservedSo he found all he had left worth givin'and he gave all he had left to herHe slid back inside his ole levi'sand he filled up his boots with his feetWhile the subways beneath New York Cityscreamed through the veins of the streetFor the lady gave up without questionthe trophy she saved all her lifeThen she curled up beside his old weather worn hideAnd the cowboy just laid down and diedHey-hi-de-hi with a whoop through the streetas his soul slowly winged out of sightThe lady was torn from the child bein' bornand the cowboy found heaven that nightThe lady was torn from the child bein' bornand the cowboy found heaven that night

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