Red Steagall - Dear Mama, I'm A Cowboy lyrics

rate me

There's nothin' left, but ashes

The fire is gone for good

I'm trapped here in this cabin

Too cold to go for wood

I thought I'd write a letter

Let you know that I'm ok

Though my leg still hurts a little

From a bad spill yesterday

Dear Mama, I'm a cowboy

And I know that breaks your heart

All the things they wrote about me

Must'a torn your world apart

So Mama please, forgive me

Though I drove you near insane

I never killed nobody

'n' I never robbed that train

We found him in the springtime

At the table where he died

Tears had stained the paper

When he bowed his head and cried

We all just bawled like babies

As we read it one by one

And thought of our own Mammas

And all the things we left undone

Then we rolled him in his blanket

And as the boys all gathered round

I read his letter one more time

As we placed him in the ground

Dear Mama, I'm a cowboy

And I know that breakes your heart

All the things they wrote about me

Must have torn your world apart

So Mama please forgive me

Though I drove you near insane

I never killed nobody

'n' I never robbed that train

I never killed nobody

'n' I never robbed that train