You rode the Goodnight-Loving trail Went up the Chisholm too You trailed three thousand to Kansas City And you wintered with Teddy Blue Here’s looking at you Here’s looking at you
You rode with Ranger Goodnight You helped him tame the land You learned the Llano Estacado Just like it was the back of your hand When you rode for the brand You rode for the brand
You’ve been three times to Sedalia With a cook and six-man crew You came dang near losing the herd and your hair To a passel of renegade Sioux But you saw it through You saw it through
And you courted the dancehall beauties ‘Till they picked your pockets clean You let it happen once and you let it happen twice Up in Dodge and Abilene And places between Every place in between
From a heat wave in Palo Pinto And to the frostbite on Raton Pass You lose cattle through a Southwestern drought In the quest for water and grass Alack and alas Huntin’ water and grass
Then you trailed home the fittest survivors When the word came of late summer rain And you reveled in respite for weary riders And three pounds a day in gain The respite of rain And three pounds of gain
You drove ‘em up to Montana Over rivers swollen outta the bank You started out helping the wrangler’s helper But you rise right up through the rank Through the dark and the dank You rose through the rank
It was a poor way to make a living And you threatened to quit—but then When the herd bedded down at the shank of evenin’ You knew you’d do it over ag’in Through the thick and the thin You’d do it ag’in
Now a half-dozen generations Have mourned your passin’ on But you were just startin’ what still isn’t over And your spirit saddles up in the dawn For you are not gone No you are not gone
For we see you in the Steeldust In the spark flyin' offfa the show Maybe we are here livin' what you never dreamed of But you lived what we never knew Here's looking at you Here's looking at you
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