I’d rather be a cowboy

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1. Jesse went away last summer, a couple of months ago.

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after all our time together, it was hard to see her go.

She called me right up when she arrived,

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asked me one more time to come,

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but livin’ on an L.A. freeway, ain’t my kind of havin’ fun.

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I think I’d rather be a cowboy,

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I think I’d rather ride the range.

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I think I’d rather be a cowboy,

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than to lay me down in love and lady’s chains.

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2. When we were just beginning, it was such an easy way,

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layin’ back up in the mountains, makin’ love for sunny days.

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But she got tired of pickin’ daisies and cookin’ my meals for me,

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she can live the life she wants to, yes, and it’s all right with me.

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I’d rather live on the side of a mountain,

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than wander through canyons of concrete and steel.

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I’d rather laugh with the rain and sunshine,

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and lay down my sundown in some starry fi………….eld.

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3. I miss her in the mornin’, when I awake alone,

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and the absence of her laughter is a cold and empty sound.

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But her memory always makes me smile and I want you to know,

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I love her, yes I love her just enough to let her go.

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I think I’d rather be a cowboy,

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I think I’drather ride the range.

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I think I’d rather be a cowboy,

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than to lay me down in love and lady’s chains. (2x)

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(John Denver)