Lyr Req: Ride 'Em Cowboy (from David Allan Coe)

Subject: rodeo song??
From: Toad
Date: 08 Aug 00 - 01:08 PM

Hi. Can anybody tell me who wrote this song. "Travelin with the rodeo, It's the only life he'll ever know. Started in New Mexico Must a been a hundred years ago."

Thanks Toad

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: rodeo song??
From: Pene Azul
Date: 08 Aug 00 - 07:00 PM

That's "Ride 'Em Cowboy" by David Allen Coe. If you need 'em, lyrics and chords are here (click).

PA

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: rodeo song??
From: Sorcha
Date: 08 Aug 00 - 08:03 PM

Thank you, PA, you saved me the trouble,(and probably Mbo too)

Subject: Lyr Add: RIDE 'EM COWBOY (from David Allan Coe)
From: Jim Dixon
Date: 09 Oct 02 - 01:55 AM

Copied from http://members.fortunecity.com/fretman/cntry/coe.htm#14

RIDE 'EM COWBOY
(David Allan Coe? Paul Davis?)

Travelin' with the rodeo,
That's the only life I've ever known.
It started in New Mexico,
Must've been a hundred years ago.
I used to be the best, they say,
Ridin' young wild horses for my pay.
Now I'm much too old, it seems.
I only ride wild horses in my dreams.

CHORUS: They used to tell me, "Ride 'em, cowboy.
Don't let 'em throw you down.
You can't make no money if you hit the ground."
They just said, "Ride 'em, cowboy.
Don't let 'em throw you down.
You're the toughest cowboy in town."

BRIDGE: I've always been the rhinestone cowboy.
I don't care what Glen Campbell has to say.
What am I supposed to do?
Midnight was a champion.
He's the only bronc I could not ride.
Now they tell me midnight's blind.
He only rides the children for a dime.
Ladies used to hang around.
I must've been a hero in their eyes.
My silver spurs are rusty now.
Lord, I wish I'd tried to settle down.

[Some Internet sources say this was written by David Allan Coe; some say by Paul Davis. They definitely both recorded it.]