Roger Creager - Cowboys & Sailors Lyrics
There's a long line of freedom, passed down in my nameLike rum and rye whiskey, it runs through my veinsThe wayfaring soles of the sage and the seaThe cowboys, sailors and meWell, no jail and no woman can hold me for longThey'll wake in the morning and I'll be goneAnd some things in this world were meant to be freeLike cowboys, sailors and meYeah, but I ran off with a circusChasing my insanityThere's ports and harbors and oceansThat I've never seenHey but I'm out here doing what I loveSo tonight when you're down on your kneesWould you say a prayer for cowboys and sailorsAnd sad guitar players like meNow this path that I've chosen, it never seems to endAnd I know this highway like the back of my handSo I trade my living for all these songs that I sing'Bout cowboys and sailors and meYeah but I ran off with a circusI'm free as a lone tumbleweedAnd there's places and wide open spacesThat I've never seenHey, but I'm out here doing what I loveSo tonight when you're down on your kneesWould you say a prayer for cowboys and sailorsAnd sad guitar players like me.'Cause I make my living' singing songs about womenAnd cowboys, and sailors and meCause I make my living, 'singing songs about
