- 50 Years Ago
Verse 1.
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If I could roll back the years
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Back when I was young and limber
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Loose as ashes in the wind
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- Barrel Racing Angel
Barrel Racing Angel
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by: Ian Tyson
written by: Ian Tyson - Slick Fork Music
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In the Arizona sunlight
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- Casey Tibbs
The forties in South Dakota
America's young and free
John Tibbs raised up 10 children
One turned out to be
The wildest young bronc fighter
Whoever bucked DOWN the line
Was just 19 when he won the World back in 1949
- Cowboy Pride
Cowboy Pride
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Well, I'm writing you this letter
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and it's a long time overdue
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You're thinkin' "Just mind your own business"
- Eighteen Inches of Rain
A’not a broke horse on the place,
My pickup truck won’t go,
The tractor lost a wheel about a week ago,
The wind is from the east,
Blowing hard across the plains,
I’m high and lonesome waiting for a change.
Just give me one broke horse with a good fittin’ saddle,
- Jaquima To Freno
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Jaquima to freno
He's an old vaquero
Hands as fine as the
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Dealers of Reno
He's been to the ocean
He's been to the sea
- Lights of Laramie
Intro:
What in the world's come over me
I never thought I'd see the day
When that ol' rodeo would turn me loose
And I'd be heading home to stay
Chorus:
Now I'm looking for the lights of Laramie
I never thought I'd miss you so
- MC Horses
We were having a drink at Stockman's,
Listenin' to the guitars ring.
Jesse said "You know,they sold the M.C. horses."
"I'll be damned.When was that?" I hadn't heard a thing.
"Back in August--100 head and more."
Yeah, the people they come from everywhere
Just to bid on 'em high and low
- Navajo Rug
Well it's two eggs up on whiskey toast
Home fries on the side,
You wash her down with the roadhouse coffee
that burns up your inside,
It's just a canyon, Colorado diner,
A waitress I did love,
We sat in the back 'neath an old stuffed bear,
On worn out Navajo rug.
- Own Heart's Delight
Capo 2nd Fret
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1.There's a light in the kitchen
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As I cross the valley and head her on into the yard
My wife is watching from that light in the kitchen
- Saddle Bronc Girl
She's a saddle bronc girl,
she is one of a kind.
Drives a beat up chevy hedge pack,
and it moves her down the line.
Big broncer wind,
in town just up ahead.
Better hold on tight,
you tapped up just right,
- Smuggler's Cove
Last night, I dreamed of Smuggler's Cove,
The seabirds all were a-wheelin'
Down on the riptide past Discovery Isle,
Where killer whales come stealin',
Where killer whales come stealin'.
Father took me by the hand
Down through the rocks and the driftwood,
- Someday Soon
(Ian Tyson)
There's a young man that I know whose age is twenty-one
Comes from down in southern Colorado
Just out of the service, he's lookin' for his fun
Someday soon, goin' with him someday soon
My parents can not stand him 'cause he rides the rodeo
- Springtime in Alberta
Should have seen it in your eyes
I could never read those eyes
So lost in love was I
They'd always take me by surprise
You were dreaming of the southland
Ah, your love comes and goes
It's just like the weather babe
Only heaven really knows
- The Old Double Diamond
Now, the old Double Diamond lay out east of Dubois
In the land of the buffalo
And the auctioneer's gavel, how it rapped and it
rattled
As I watched the old Double Diamond go
Won't you listen to the wind
Mother Nature's violin