Cowboy Song Lyrics

by Thin Lizzy

I am just a cowboy lonesome on the trail

A starry night, a campfire light

The coyote call, the howling winds wail

So I ride out to the old sundown

I am just a cowboy lonesome on the trail

Lord, I'm just thinking about a certain female

The nights we spent together riding on the range

Looking back it seems so strange

Roll me over and turn me around

Let me keep spinning till I hit the ground

Roll me over and let me go

Running free with the buffalo

I was took in Texas I did not know her name

Lord, all these southern girls seem the same

Down below the border in a town in Mexico

I got my job busting broncs for 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

Don't believe me if I tell you

Not a word of this is true

Don't believe me if I tell you

Especially if I tell you that I'm in love with you

Don't believe me if I tell you

That I wrote this song for you

There might be some other silly pretty girl

I'm singing it to

Don't believe a word

For words are only spoken

Your heart is like a promise

Made to be broken

Don't believe a word

Words can tell lies

And lies are no comfort

When there's tear in your eyes

Don't believe me if I tell you

Not a word of this is true

Don't believe me if I tell you

Especially if I tell you that I'm in love with you

Don't believe a word

Tonight there's gonna be a jailbreak

Somewhere in this town

See me and the boys we don't like it

So were getting up and going down

Hiding low looking right to left

If you see us coming I think it's best

To move away do you hear what I say

From under my breath

Tonight there's gonna be a jailbreak

Somewhere in the town

Tonight there's gonna be a jailbreak

So don't you be around

Don't you be around

Tonight there's gonna be trouble

Some of us won't survive

See the boys and me mean business

Bustin' out dead or alive

I can hear the hound dogs on my trail

All hell breaks loose, alarm and sirens wail

Like the game if you lose

Go to jail

Tonight there's gonna be a jailbreak

Somewhere in the town

Tonight there's gonna be a jailbreak

So don't you be around

Tonight there's gonna trouble

I'm gonna find myself in

Tonight there's gonna be a jailbreak

So woman stay with a friend

You know it's safer

Breakout!

Tonight there's gonna be a breakout

Into the city zones

Don't you dare to try and stop us

No one could for long

Searchlight on my trail

Tonight's the night all systems fail

Hey you good lookin' female

Come here!

Tonight there's gonna be a jailbreak

Somewhere in the town

Tonight there's gonna be a jailbreak

So don't you be around

Tonight there's gonna be trouble

I'm gonna find myself in

Tonight there's gonna be trouble

So woman stay with a friend