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Cowboys of the sea

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Cowboys of the sea

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They ride beneath the waves at 20,000 leagues

On stallions stitched to seaweed strands

So smiling, so smiling

They herd the fishes of the deep

They ride for you and me

They ranch the rich and the sunken soil

At the bottom of the sea

In the dead of night, alive in sleep

I hear them calling me

Them deep sea desperadoes

Them midnight maelstrom freaks

The cowboy of the sea

So on wings of sleep I pierce the deep

And ride like a hurricane

At midnight still I paid my bill

And turned my back on the land

With the help of old paint, that seaweed nag

Its just jesse james and me

We ride the depths and rob the banks

At the bottom of the sea

With a seamans grip on navigation

And some fired, hired hands

We set forth to confront the nation

And lend a cowboys hand

We do the dolphins dance duet

My mermaid babe and me

Then I ride of into the blue sunset

At the bottom of the sea

And with the seamans grip on submarining

And some aqualung outlaws

Our guns are made of solid dreamin

And bullets from a broken cause

And with hand held high to touch the sky

A good texas ranger I'll bebut sometimes I feel like a lone stranger

midst the cowboys of the sea

Oh and men above he cannot make love

Hes got to rape his mother the sea

And because of his greed

Were a vanishing breed

We cowboys of the sea

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