Cowboy Bill

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He told a good story and all us kids listened
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'Bout his life on the border and the way it was then
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And we all believed, and when he would finish
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We'd ask the old cowboy to tell em again
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You could almost hear those prairie winds blowin'
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His saddle a creakin' 'neath his old faded jeans
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You could taste the dry dust from the trail he was ridin'
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As he sat there and he painted those west Texas scenes

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And the grown ups would tell us
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You boys keep your distance,
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that old man's just tellin' you lies
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But to all us kids
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Cowboy Bill was a hero
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Just as true as his blue Texas skies

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He told of a time when he rode with the Rangers
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Down on the Pecos and he saved the day
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Outnumbered by plenty, they were almost to cover,
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With thirty banditos headed their way
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He looked back just in time to see a horse stumble,
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The captain went down and bill pulled up on his reins
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And through a flurry of bullets he rescued the captain,
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They rode for a sunset, just the story remains

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[Verse 3]
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Well, I still remember the day that it happened
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We waited and waited, but Bill never showed
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And the folks at the feedstore said they hadn't seen him
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So we set out for his place down Old Grist Mill Road
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And we cried when we found him lying there with his memories
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The old trunk wide open things scattered about
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And he was clutching a badge that said Texas Ranger,
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And an old yeller letter said "Texas is Proud"

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And the grown ups that told us
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You boys keep your distance,
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that old man's just tellin' you lies
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Well now they're all sayin'
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Cowboy Bill was a hero
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Just as true as his blue Texas skies