Hats Off

The stage is set tonight down in Nashville

It's been a long, hard ride into town

And thanks to some cowboys and heroes

My chance to sing has finally come around

The first song I ever sang was Haggard's

Momma sang to me, "I Saw the Light"

And I'd turn my radio up louder

To hear Johnny Cash walk the line

Mmmm

Ol' Waylon sang the songs about Texas

Willie's blue eyes, cryin' in the rain

Bocephus sang the songs about Dixie

And Lefty taught us, all how to sing

Chorus

Hats off to hard ridin' cowboys

Riding somewhere tonight

Hats off to hard ridin' cowboys

Wanted, dead or alive

Well, Charlie ran the Devil out of Georgia

Skynyrd sang of sweet home Alabam'

The Allman Brothers taught us how to ramble

And the Tucker boys showed us how to jam

Chorus

Well, the stage is set tonight up in Heaven

And Reba's band is there with Patsy Cline

And all around there's cowboys and cowgirls

And thanks to them, the music's still alive

Chorus

Hats off to hard ridin' cowboys

Flyin' somewhere tonight

Hats off to hard flyin' cowboys

Wanted, dead or alive