Go Riding Young Cowboy

He stood out in the Cheyenne area dust by the latch on chute number four

The young cowboys were laughin' at him and at the out of date clothes that he wore

Though his trophy buckle was old it told of the glory he surely had seen

And the beard that showed neath his old John B was wirey silver sheen

With a plug in his lip from his back pocket rip and his faded old denim jeans blue

Where a halo show white like a moon in the night

Was a hole where his snoozed worn through

He spat in the dust and he bitterly cussed as the bull tried to tear down the chute

Then he looked up at me with a gleam in his eye

And he placed his old hand on my boot

He said you'll ride this old bull on your worst ever day

With your hind leg chained to a tree

As I am made ready to concur the brute here's an old song my old man sang to me

Go ridin' young cowboy go winnin' and goin' out boy

Don't let him put you on the ground

Go spur him young cowboy de fur him riding out boy

Show 'em that your Oklahoma bound

Well I marked eighty points and I won me the round

The fans in the stands went plum wild

Well I could see my old daddy just a dancin' a jig

Well I looked up to the Lord and I smiled

I said thanks for my good arm and thanks for my luck

And thanks that I'm still fit and young

But thanks most of all for them old bulls that buck

For my dad and the song that he sung

Go ridin' young cowboy...

Well I've been down the road many miles since that day

Things ain't changed much since I've begun

I still think of my dad when I'm ropin' one up and I sing his song to my son

Go ridin' young cowboy...

Go ridin' young cowboy...