My heroes have always been cowboys (video) (midi)

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1. I grew up a-dreamin' of bein' a cowboy,

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lovin' the cowboy ways,

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pursuin' 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 the modern-day drifter :

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don't you hold onto nothin' too long.

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Just take what you need from the ladies,

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then leave them the words of a sad country song.

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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, but one step in back of

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themselves and their slow-movin' dreams.

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2. Cowboys are special with their own brand of misery,

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from bein' alone too long,

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you could die from the cold in the arms of a nightmare

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knowin' well that your best days are gone.

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Pickin' up hookers instead of my pen,

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I let the words of my years fade away,

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old worn-out saddles, old worn-out memories

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with no one and no place to stay.

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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, but one step in back of

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themselves and their slow-movin' dreams.

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+ Sadly in search of, and one step in back of

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themselves and their slow-movin' dreams.

(midi in C)    (Willie Nelson)