I am just a cowboy lonesome on the trail
   A starry night, a campfire light
   The coyote call, the howling winds wail
   So I ride out to the old sundown
  
   I am just a cowboy lonesome on the trail
   Lord, I'm just thinking about a certain female
   The nights we spent together riding on the range
   Looking back it seems so strange
  
   Roll me over and turn me around
   Let me keep spinning 'till I hit the ground
   Roll me over and let me go
   Running free with the buffalo
  
   I was took in Texas,
   I did not know her name Lord,
   all these southern girls seem the same
   Down below the border in a town in Mexico
  
   I got my job busting broncs for the rodeo
   Roll me over and turn me around
   Let me keep spinning 'till I hit the ground
   Roll me over and let me go
  
   Riding in the rodeo
   Roll me over and set me free
   The cowboy's life is the life for me