Black eye for his breakfast, fried egg on the sun

Old Cowboy

Between Mexico and Texas
He made the midnight run
A black eye for his breakfast
Fried egg on the sun
Tattoo from the navy
Scar from a barroom blade
A bit part in a movie
That never did get made
His good deeds may outnumber
All his petty crimes
But I worry 'bout that old cowboy
Sometimes...

He used to croon to every tune
The border stations played
Windows down at 2:00 am
Del Rio hit parade
He's been rich and he's been broke
Made and paid his dues
Strike a match and light a smoke
And sing the highway blues
His good deeds may outnumber
All his petty crimes
But I worry 'bout that old cowboy
Sometimes...

The cock fights in El Paso
The Lobby in Juarez
All messed up on mescal
A debt the devil pays
It's a kind of sado-mado
A fight outside a bar
And a broken-ankled shadow
Staggers to a car
His good deeds may outnumber
All his petty crimes
But I worry 'bout that old cowboy
Sometimes...

Between Mexico and Texas
He made the midnight run
A black eye for his breakfast
Fried egg on the sun
Tattoo from the navy
Scar from a barroom blade
A bit part in a movie
That never did get made
His good deeds, they outnumber
All his petty crimes
But I worry 'bout that old cowboy
Sometimes...

DL

This song is copyrighted 2005
by Doug Lang (SOCAN)