Dirt And Sweat Cowboy Lyrics - Chris Ledoux

Well Lord, I love this ranchin' with it's ropin' and brandin' 

But I don't like that farmin' at all 

It's goodbye for the summer, this haying's sure a bummer 

And I'll be back to help you gather in the fall 

Well, I don't mind riding fences but them tractors are wrenches 

I ain't never liked and I guess I never will 

Just give me my horse and saddle or some woolies or some cattle 

And turn me loose and let me ride out through the hills 

Cause I'm just a cowboy, a dirt and sweat cowboy 

Livin' on beef steak and beans 

I ain't to hard to please but Mister you better believe 

I ain't never had no use for farm machines 

Well, there ain't much romancing in old fashioned branding 

But Lorrie, it suits me just fine 

Oh, the dust and the smoke's enough to make a feller choke 

But have you ever had to ride one of them old combines 

Now my grandpa was a farmer, a Michigan black land farmer 

And he worked with them machines the whole day through 

But I bet if he did some roaming through the hills of old Wyoming 

He'd probably feel about the same way that I do 

I reckon it's just bad fate, I was born a hundred years too, Kate 

And they say boy if you want to survive you'd better change 

But as long as sagebrush grows and that old Powder River flows 

I'll be a cowboy till my dyin' day 

I'm just a cowboy 

Well, I think I just heard a discouraging word 

About them rattling, banging, smoking farm machines