Modern Times
Copyright 1998 - Will Pete
This song is partly based on a colleague with some of myself worked in. Old time cowboys did what they wanted to and had to, with a restlessness of spirit that lives on today.
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He was born back in the forties,
Many years behind his lonesome soul
He drives a white Ramcharger,
Worked a hundred jobs
And now teachin's gettin' old
He team ropes on the weekends,
Works the farm on the weekends
And dreams of a place, that someday he will go
Bobby rides tall in the saddle
And he walks that extra mile
In his heart he's a cowboy
Ridin' modern times, with a tight rein and a smile
Whatever happened to Tex Ritter
Woody Guthrie, Patsy Cline and all the rest
Open range by the fire
Starry heavens, where a man is at his best
Findin' freedom in the mountains
Peace of mind at sunset
Just a cowboy always searchin'
A modern cowboy, livin' the old west
Bobby rides tall in the saddle
And he walks that extra mile
In his heart he's with them
Ridin' modern times, with a tight rein and a smile
Copyright Will Pete 1998
Poet Writer WILL PETE HOME Veteran Musician Math Tutor
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