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Artist: Burl Ives
Canonical path: /burl-ives/lavender-cowboy
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Lavender Cowboy
Read Lavender Cowboy lyrics by Burl Ives on LyroVerse, with linked artist context and related song paths.
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Lavender Cowboy
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He was only a lavender cowboy,
The hairs on his chest were two,
But he wished to follow the heroes
And fight like the he-men do.
But he was inwardly troubled
By a dream that gave him no rest,
That he'd go with his heroes in action
With only two hairs on his chest.
First he tried many a hair tonic.
'Twas rubbed in on him each night.
But still when he looked in the mirror
Those two hairs were ever in sight.
But with a spirit undaunted
He wandered out to fight,
Just like an old-time knight errant
To win combat for the right.
He battled for Red Nellie's honor
And cleaned out a holdup's nest
He died with his six guns a-smoking
With only two hairs on his chest.
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Burl Ives performs "Lavender Cowboy", and this lyric page sits inside the Burl Ives catalog on LyroVerse.
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