I think the version of the lyrics posted is slightly altered from Ned Sublette's original. When I heard it by Sublette on the CBC years ago, I recall a line that referred to leather and "high heels".

Watching some wrangler precariously trying to navigate a rocky patch of ground in boots with 2 inch stacked heels never failed to make me giggle and recall this song. Really graceful in the saddle, as awkward as a blue footed booby on the ground. Damned good thing mind reading wasn't possible.

I figured it could only be sung in a wire cage, by some very brave or foolhardy individual in some of the places I have visited out here in the past. Nice to know that things have changed.....a little bit.