The Last Cowboy Song

The Last Cowboy Song By Ed Bruce Words & Music by Ed Bruce & Ron Peterson rmofle at satx.rr.com 6/19/2005 Chorus: D This is the last cowboy song D G The end of a hundred-year waltz A The voices are sad as they're singing along A D Another piece of America's lost D He rides the feedlot and clerks in a market D A On weekends selling tobacco and beer A His dreams of tomorrow surrounded by fences A D But he'll dream tonight of when fences weren't here He blazed a trail with Lewis and Clark And eyeball to eyeball, old Wyatt backed down He stood shoulder to shoulder with Travis in Texas And rode with the 7th when Custer went down Chorus Remington showed us how he looked on canvas And Louis Lamour has told us his tale Waylon and Willie and me sing about him And wish to God we could have ridden his trail (Verse spoken over chorus) The old Chisolm trail is covered in concrete now They drive 'em to market in fifty foot rigs They roll by his marker not slowin' to read it Like livin' and dyin' was all that he did