A Cowboy Has to Sing
(Bob Nolan)
When each new day is born I go ridin’.
O’er the wide-open plains I roam
‘Til the sun to the hills goes hidin’.
There will always be someone glad when I come home.
Yippee-ay, Yippee-oa! end of day, home we go.
For a cowboy has to sing and a cowboy has to yell
Or his heart would break inside of him
At the gates of the home corral.
Now the long day is thru on the prairie.
There’s a low-hanging sun in the sky.
‘Round the home corral we will tarry
And we’ll sing of the round-ups in the days gone by.
Yippee-ay, Yippee-oa! end of day, home we go.
For a cowboy has to sing and a cowboy has to yell
Or his heart would break inside of him
At the gates of the home corral.
There’s a tired pony glad that it’s over.
With a song in my heart, so am I
For tonight we’ll be dreaming of clover
And we always will until the day we die.
Yippee-ay, Yippee-oa! end of day, home we go.
For a cowboy has to sing and a cowboy has to yell
Or his heart would break inside of him
At the gates of the home corral.
Yippee-ay, Yippee-oa! end of day, home we go.
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