My Heroes Have Always Been Cowboys

My Heroes Have Always Been Cowboys -Waylon Jennings

I grew up a dreaming of being a cowboy

Loving the cowboy ways

Pursuing the life of my high riding heroes

I burned up my childhood days

I learned all the rules of the modern day drifter

Don't you hold on to nothing too long

Just take what you need from the ladies then leave them

With the words of a sad country song

My heroes have always been cowboys

And they still are it seems

Sadly in search of but one step in back of

Themselves and their slow moving dreams

Cowboys are special with their own brand of misery

From being alone too long

You could die from the cold in the arms of a nightmare

Knowing well your best days are gone

Picking up hookers instead of my pen

I let the words of my years fade away

Old worn out saddles an 'old worn out memories

No one and no place to stay

My heroes have always been cowboys

And they still are it seems

Sadly in search of but one step in back of

Themselves and their slow moving dreams