Cowboy Pride Song Lyrics and Chords by Michael Martin Murphey
Cowboy Pride
Recorded by Michael Martin Murphey
Written by Ian Tyson
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Friend I'm writing you this
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letter
And it's a long time over
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due
You're thinking just mind your own
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business
I wouldn't blame you if you
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do
You know our range is gettin'
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smaller
Hear you're all busted up
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inside
But it ain't the broncos that'll
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kill
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It's just that damned old cowboy
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pride
Cowboy pride can always
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get a man
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Em
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through
But
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cowboy pride will make a
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fool of you
Good women are
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hard to find
I'm talkin' about the
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faithful
kind
I hear you're running with that
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waitress
And she's under age and
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wild
You know your wife's the best there
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is
son
Would you move in with that
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child
She stuck with you through the
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hard
times
Think of all the nights she
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cried
Will she be another
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victim
Of that same old cowboy
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pride
Guess it's time to close my
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letter
It's just somethin' that I had to
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do
You know I made the same
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mistake
once
Before she fell in love with
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you
So go home to your wife and
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family
It's time to put the past
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aside
So you don't end up like
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me
now
Nothin' left but cowboy
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pride
Repeat #3
Don't end up like
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me
now
With nothin' left but cowboy
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pride
FAQ
Who sang the the song Cowboy Pride?
- The song Cowboy Pride was sang by Michael Martin Murphey.
Who is Michael Martin Murphey?
- Michael Martin Murphey (born March 14, 1945) is an American singer-songwriter best known for writing and performing Western music, country music and popular music. A multiple Grammy nominee, Murphey has six gold albums, including Cowboy Songs, the first album of cowboy music to achieve gold status since Gunfighter Ballads and Trail Songs by Marty Robbins in 1959. He has recorded the hit singles "Wildfire", "Carolina in the Pines", "What's Forever For", "A Long Line of Love", "What She Wants", "Don't Count the Rainy Days", and "Maybe This Time". Murphey is also the author of New Mexico's state ballad, "The Land of Enchantment". Murphey has become a prominent musical voice for the Western horseman, rancher, and cowboy.
