My Dad really WAS a "real life cowboy." I was thinking of him and the comments from an internet friend named Garrett Walker from Reverbnation. Garrett had just watched the Country Music Awards on television. He commented that they "had a little bit of everything on that show. . . Well... everything BUT country music," Garrett said. Garrett is also a "real life Cowboy."
I wrote this lyric in just about thirty minutes. An acquaintance named Paul Newett set the music to this (the only true fifty/fifty collaboration I have with Paul really) and he actually admitted to being excited about the song. That was rare. Several people have told me it's my best song. That's all a matter of taste, of course, but I'd like to hear your opinions.
I'll apologize in advance. The recording starts over and replays the beginning for a few bars. I was apparently just sloppy.
www.reverbnation.com/hardtwistmusicsongwriter Downtown Cowboys by HardTwistMusic
VERSE ONE:
Ride em cowboy throw that rope Yippee Yi Yo Ki Yay
My Daddy was a real life cowboy,
He roped and rode and spit.
He had no use for dime store cowboys
who had never stepped in er... uh... it.
If Daddy had lived to see what's passin for Cowboys now....
Pony Tails, spikey hair, styling jell, he'd have a cow.
Well, that ain't how the cowboy's done it back in Daddy's day.
It's a different brand of cowboy you'd have to say.
PRE-CHORUS:
Downtown cowboys don't get dirty when they're throwin the bull around.
And working cowboys don't need to wear a costume into town.
CHORUS:
Well, they just don't make cowboys
like they used to that's for shore. Back in Daddy's day not so long ago before.
And there ain't no room for country boys in country anymore.
Downtown Cowboys took country music out for a little ole stroll.... And when they brought it back it sounded like watered down rock and roll....
like watered down rock and roll...
like watered down rock and roll.
VERSE TWO:
Yippee Yi Yo... Yippe Yi Yo... Yippee Yi Yo Ki Yay
So when did all of these cowboys up and move into New York City?
And downtown Houston, Dallas and L.A.?
And what do Atlanta and Memphis need all of those cowboys for??
There ain't no cows for the boys to herd along the Jersey Shore.
Yippee Yi Yo... Yippe Yi Yo... Yippee Yi Yo Ki Yay
VERSE THREE:
And ain't it somehow backwards to wear a tie when you go into work.
Then dress up like a cowboy to go into town.
Well, you know it's really nothing to me and I'm not tryin to be a jerk.
But it's kind of an insult to real life cowboys
when downtown, dimestore, midnight cowboys throw that bull around.
CHORUS:
Well, they just don't make cowboys
like they used to that's for shore. Back in Daddy's day not so long ago before.
And there ain't no room for country boys in country anymore.
Downtown Cowboys took country music out for a little ole stroll.... And when they brought it back it sounded like watered down rock and roll....
like watered down rock and roll...
like watered down rock and roll.