Thin Lizzy – Cowboy Song

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I am just a cowboy, lonesome in the trail.
Starry night, campfire light, and the coyote calls where the howlin' winds will.
So I ride out to the ol' sundown. I am just a cowboy, lonesome on the trail.
Lord I'm just thinking about a certain female.
And the nights we spent together, riding on the range.
Looking back, it doesn't seem so strange.

Roll me over and turn me around. Let me keep spinning 'til I hit the ground.
Roll me over and let me go, riding in the rodeo.

I was took in Texas, I did not know her name.
But Lord all these southern girls, they seem the same.
But down below the border, in a town in Mexico,
I got my job busting broncs for the rodeo.

Roll me over ans turn me around, let me keep spinnin till I hit the ground.
Roll me over and let me go, running free with the buffalo.

Roll me over, and I'll turn around.
And I'll move my fingers up and down.
Up and down.

It's ok amigo, just let me go.
Riding in the rodeo.

Roll me over and turn me around, let me keep spinning till I hit the ground.
Roll me over and let me go, riding in the rodeo.
Roll me over and set me free, the cowboy's life is the life for me.

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Track duration: 05:14

"Cowboy Song" as written by Brian Michael Downey, Philip Parris Lynott

Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group

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    General Comment:Nobody has mentioned but errr........ I think the song could actually be about funny business, not just about cowboys......

    "I am just cowboy lonesome on the trail
    Lord, I'm just thinking about a certain female
    The nights we spent together riding on the range"

    RIP Phil
    Flag Sunnyhillon February 23, 2009   Link
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    General Comment:who cares where he was born, great song, great band
    Flag LordOzzyon February 05, 2009   Link
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    General Comment:one of my favourites too, a band i was in used to cover this/boys are back in town, like on live n dangerous, it was well fun to play.
    and you know he's irish because on live n dangerous at one point he says something like "any girls in the audience got any irish in em?....would you like a little more?"
    Flag NeverDougon January 03, 2009   Link
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    General Comment:Who the hell cares where you were born? His mom was Irish and his dad was Brazilian. No English to be found. I know Americans that were born in Germany and Italy...does this make them German and Italian??? I would say no.

    Anyway awesome song though. Lynott is a god.
    Flag blacksabfanon April 27, 2008   Link
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    General Comment:Phil Lynott may have been born in Birmingham put that doesn't mean he was English. He said so himself he considered himself Irish in every way. Phil Lynott is IRELAND and thats that. By the way unreal song tha live and dangerous version is one the greatest songs of all time('',)
    Flag Buckson April 26, 2007   Link
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    General Comment:My friends used to laugh at me for liking this song. I still think it's one of the greatest songs ever recorded. I don't even think the west or cowboys are cool, this song is just that good, it makes me look past the obvious ridiculousness of a half-black brit singing about cowboys and riding bulls and all that.

    I think the meaning of this song is pretty clear: Phil Lynot wants to be a cowboy. Yes, the lyrics are a little silly, but when that second guitar solo comes in, I crap my pants every time.
    Flag smackdorkon October 12, 2006   Link
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    General Comment:yeah hes form birmingham and then moved to ireland. On live and dangerous it is amazing espc the way it ends and then breaks into the boys are back and town (you gotta hear it) one of my fav thin lizzy tracks
    Flag MadMaccaon June 15, 2006   Link
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    General Comment:Lynott had a bit of an obsession with 'The dusty Romance' of the Wild West

    This song is about that kind of business
    Flag Burtoniteon April 24, 2006   Link
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    General Comment:Actually Phil Lynott was born in Birmingham, but then moved to Ireland when he was very young
    Flag guitar-rockeron March 09, 2006   Link
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    General Comment:Rapala you goof ball...Phil Lynott was from IRELAND!
    Flag MoonlitKnighton January 31, 2006   Link

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