Hi,

Welcome to Mudcat. If you use the Google.com search engine you can search using some of the lyrics. I searched for "cowboy in his continental suit" (using the double quotes/" )

A lot of sites came up but the first one I looked at was this one, which has the lyrics:

http://www.letssingit.com/?http://www.letssingit.com/marty-robbins-the-cowboy-in-the-continental-suit-3rn81j3.html

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Marty Robbins
Song: THE COWBOY IN THE CONTINENTAL SUIT
Album: No. 1 Cowboy,
Story of My Life-Best of Mart,
Under Western Skies Disc 3


Helen

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THE COWBOY IN THE CONTINENTAL SUIT
(Recorded by Marty Robbins)

Well, he walks out in the arena all dressed up to the brim
Said he'd just came down from a place called "Highland Rim"
Well, he said he came to ride the horse the one they call "The Brute"
But he didn't look like a cowboy in his continental suit.

We snickered at the way he dressed but he never said a word.
He walks on by the rest of us as if he hadn't heard.
A thousand bucks went to the man who could ride this wild cayuse.
A meaner horse was never born than the one they called "The Brute."

The horse that he was looking for was in chute number eight.
He walked up very slowly put his hand upon the gate.
We knew he was a thoroughbred when he pulled his sack of "Dukes"
From the inside pocket of his continental suit.

Well, he rolled hisself a "Corley" and he lit it standing there.
Blew himself a smoke ring and he watched it disappear.
We thought he must be crazy when he opened up the gate.
Standing just inside was fifteen hundred pounds of hate.

The buckskin tried to run him down but the stranger was too quick.
He stepped aside and threw his arms around the horse's neck
And pulled himself up on the back of the horse they called "The Brute"
Sit like he was born there in his continental suit.

"The Brute's" hind-end was in the air, his front end on the ground,
Kickin' and a-squealin', tryin' to shake this stranger down,
But the stranger didn't give an inch; he came to ride "The Brute"
And he came to ride the buckskin in a continental suit.

Well, I turned around to look at Jim and he was watchin' me.
He said, "I don't believe the crazy things I think I see,
But I think I see the outlaw the one they call "The Brute"
Ridden by a cowboy in a continental suit"

"The Brute" came to a stand-still ashamed that he'd been rode
By a city cowboy in some continental clothes.
The stranger took his money and we don't know where he went.
We don't know where he came from and we haven't seen him since.

The moral of this story: never judge by what they wear.
Underneath some ragged clothes could be a millionaire.
Everybody listen: don't be fooled by this galoot,
This sure-'nough bronc buster in a continental suit.

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Helen's link led to some rather invasive popup ads along with the lyrics, so I deleted the link and pasted in the lyrics.-Joe Offer-