The Cowhand's Last Ride-Jimmie Rodgers

[ti:The Cowhand's Last Ride] [ar:Jimmie Rodgers] [al:Jimmie Rodgers Selected Favorites, Vol. 5] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]The Cowhand's Last Ride - Jimmie Rodgers [00:20.96]He was just a Texas cowhand [00:25.76]One that knew his stuff [00:29.78]His eyes were black [00:31.93]His face was tan [00:34.02]His hands were broad and rough [01:00.20]He was tough as an old buzzsaw [01:04.77]All the boys stayed shy [01:09.07]For they all knew his aim was true [01:13.22]He'd shoot at the wink of an eye [01:17.58]One night with that plains around us [01:21.97]He met with a rustlers band [01:26.19]As the flames leaped high on his old camp fire [01:30.82]He fell with a gun in his hand [02:05.50]We rolled out of bed the next morning [02:10.18]We dug a grave in the sand [02:14.48]When we found stretched out on the ground [02:18.46]This brave and lonely cowhand [02:22.80]We buried him on the prairie [02:27.35]Wrapped in an old cowhide [02:31.45]By the light of the moon we wrote on his tomb [02:36.06]"Another cowhand's last ride"