Of all the lonesome cowboys in the West I figure I've gotta be the lonesomest. I want to right the reins where there's lots of ... rum, feel the wind blow free, it's never ... brush plumb Rather be on my own, son, singing my lonesome cowboy blues.
Yes I'm the lonesomest cowboy that I know, but when it comes to ... a message I move real slow. Made a ... to get hit the other day, my horse got so upset we rode the other way. I've gotta be on my own, son, singing my lonesome cowboy blues.
Some folks they keep stepping in a hotel with their puffed up pillows and their ... high. Well I don't have care for no hotel: just wanna get my boots on by the campfire's glow while the lonely coyotes cry. Well my bed is my horse and saddle and my blanket is the sky.
Of all the lonesome cowboys in the West folks, I can see I'm still the lonesomest. Beneath the prairie skies I'm gonna drift and dream tonight and never find what I'm looking for, but then I might, so let me be on my own, son, singing my lonesome cowboy blues; just leaving the ... if I choose singing my lonesome cowboy blues.