Garth Brooks – Cowboy Bill (Guitar)

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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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    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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    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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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