What A Man's Got To Do

There's six hundred dollars tucked into his jeans

Burnin' a hole in his heart

He stares at the phone in a cheap motel

And he knows that it won't get him far

Got a half-busted shoulder on a bull down in Houston

There once was a time that he didn't mind losin'

But it's all on the line now and then some too

And he just don't know what to do

There's a Greyhound Station with a midnight ride

That'd take him back home before dawn

And he could pick up that phone and hear her voice on

the line

And like a flash of wild lightnin' be gone

But another bus leaves for Laredo at sunrise

As he fights back the tears fallin' down from his blue

eyes

He whispers her name and a prayer to get through

'Cause he just don't know what to do

It's a hundred year story of struggle and strife

It's the pain and the glory of every cowboy's life

When there's just enough money to ride or go home

You fall down for good or you get back on

There's a chute flyin' open down in Laredo Texas

The crowd comes alive with the rush

There's a cowboy spinnin' and a Brahma-cross buckin'

He's ridin' all out or bust

He's fightin' and spurrin'

They're twistin' and turnin'

And inside the fire it just keeps on burnin'

And he calls when it's over to say I love you

But a man's got to do what a man's got to do